Resource: Book People, Inc. V. Wong

Some members of Media Coalition members – American Booksellers Association, Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, and Comic Book Legal Defense Fund – as well as two Texas independent booksellers filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, challenging a new Texas law that would require independent booksellers, national chain bookstores, large online book retailers, book publishers and other vendors to review and rate thousands of books and other library materials for sexual content if those books are sold to school libraries. The plaintiffs have asked the court for preliminary and permanent injunctions to enjoin the implementation of the law, which has been signed by the Governor of Texas and is slated to go into effect on September 1, 2023.