In a preliminary injunction, a divided panel of three federal appeals court judges ruled the Llano County Library system must put 8 out of 17 banned books back on the shelves, following a lawsuit over their removal.
A federal court ruled that it is unconstitutional to remove library books with the "intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree."
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Llano County is involved in four civil suits before Judge Robert Pitman in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division.