The Virginia State Court has dismissed a case petitioning to have Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Maas’ fantasy romance A Court of Mist and Fury declared “obscene for minors” under an obscure state statute. Retired Judge Pamela S. Baskervill was assigned the case after all local judges recused themselves. She called the statute “facially invalid” and “unconstitutional on its face in that it authorizes a prior restraint that violates the First Amendment and the Constitution of Virginia” and ordered it removed from the docket. Lawyers representing the authors and publishers, the ACLU, Barnes & Noble, and “a coalition […]
