Matter of Shelton v. New York State Dept. of Corr. & Community Supervision

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• holding that school board may not remove books from library shelves merely because it disapproves of ideas they express
• holding that while school boards \rightly possess significant discretion to determine the content of their school libraries ... that discretion may not be exercised in a narrowly partisan or political manner\
• holding that while school boards “rightly possess significant discretion to determine the content of them school libraries ... that discretion may not be exercised in a narrowly partisan or political manner”
• holding that the First Amendment prohibits the government from removing books from the shelves of a school library based on the ideas contained in those books
• holding that “[l]ocal school boards may not remove books from school libraries simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books”
• finding that ignoring the advice of literary experts, librarians, teachers, and the Superintendent, may support suspicions that a school board's motivations were unconstitutional

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