After the state of Maryland’s law attempting to regulate the licensing of ebooks to libraries was quickly found unconstitutional by District Court Judge Deborah L. Boardman, the plaintiff AAP is asking the judge to ensure the endurance of her ruling with a permanent injunction. Earlier in the month Maryland’s state attorney general had requested that Judge Boardman issue declaratory judgment for the AAP without issuing a permanent injunction, looking to avoid “having to invoke the Court’s ongoing jurisdiction over the State’s compliance” (and, perhaps, trying to leave some wiggle room for future legislation). Maryland had argued that it did not […]