School District Consents to Protecting Citizens’ Rights to Read from School Library Books at Board Meetings


From the Jan. 30 Consent Judgment in Mama Bears of Forsyth County v. McCall (N.D. Ga.):

As a part of the Events’ settlement of this matter, … the Courtroom[s] enter the next order, which the Courtroom finds acceptable and in keeping with the Courtroom’s prior order issuing a preliminary injunction[:] …

[a.] The Courtroom completely enjoins the District … from implementing any present or future FCS public participation coverage to ban … any … audio system entitled to talk at an FCS college board assembly … from studying or quoting verbatim from the textual content of any e book or written works accessible in any FCS library or classroom, whereas addressing the college board through the public-comment interval at college board conferences.

[b.] Plaintiffs are every awarded nominal damages within the quantity of $17.91 [plus costs and fees to be calculated later] ….

The $17.91 in nominal damages appears to be somewhat little bit of symbolism provided by plaintiffs’ legal professionals, Institute for Free Speech, on this case and in others. Congratulations to Endel Rohe Kolde (Institute for Free Speech) and Erika Birg (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough).