On Monday, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a block on Senate File 496, Iowa’s book banning law. The injunction has been reversed and reinstated multiple times since the law, which removes books with LGBTQ themes and references to sex acts from school libraries, first passed in 2023. Just weeks ago in March, U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher reinstated an injunction against the law, after an Iowa Eighth Circuit panel reversed the original injunction in December 2023. Penguin Random House vp and associate general counsel Dan Novack said in a statement on behalf of the plaintiff group: “While […]
