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Award-winning authors and Utah high school students challenge book ban law in court
As Utah adds more titles to its banned book list, three award-winning authors and two high school students are suing the state, the board of education and three school districts over what they describe as “the freedom to read.” In a lawsuit filed Tuesday with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, authors Elana K. Arnold, Ellen Hopkins and Amy Reed, the Kurt Vonnegut Estate, and two anonymous students challenged Utah’s “sensitive materials” law that the Legislature expanded in 2024, making it easier to prohibit “criminally indecent or pornographic” books from public ...
