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The plaintiffs argue that the book restrictions violate the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and force business owners to express and impose the government's views "or face government punishment," according to the complaint. Vendors "must perform a contextual analysis of the material to determine whether the material describes, depicts, or portrays sexual conduct in a way that is patently offensive," the legislation says. The booksellers would be tasked with deciding which books are rated as "sexually explicit."
Some book vendors say they're not comfortable deciding what should and should not be in schools across the state. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission, which is targeted in the lawsuit through its chair Martha Wong, declined to comment.
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