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Litigious Quartet Sues ALA for Right to Burn Book (and more).


In West Bend, Wisconsin, four elderly folks got together to sue the American Library Association for $120,000 ($30,000 per plaintiff) and – get this – the right to publicly burn or by other means destroy a book they found so offensive they claim to have been personally harmed just by viewing it (Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block) in the West Bend Library.

Oh – the four litigious library victims’ lawsuit also called for the resignation of the mayor, as well as calling for a grand jury to studiously examine the book to see whether it could be called obscene and declared a hate crime.

But the good news is, for those of you who hadn’t heard from Righteous Indignation in a while and were worried it might be sick….nope, not to worry. It’s alive and well and currently living in Wisconsin.

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About Beth Carswell

I've been reading, selling, researching, loving and writing about books with AbeBooks since 2000.

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