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Parts of a Texas law that would have required
booksellers

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to rate sexual content in books sold to
schools will

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not go into effect.

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A federal appeals court this week declined to
reconsider an

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earlier ruling that sided with booksellers who
said the law

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violates the First Amendment.

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Ellie Brinkley is a legal fellow with Penn
America.

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She called House Bill 900 disastrous.

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These laws are sort of patently absurd and on
their

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face are antithetical to First Amendment
values.