Judge Dismisses Part of FTC’s Case Against Amazon On Tuesday, October 1, Amazon won a partial dismissal of the FTC’s landmark antitrust case against the online giant, as reported by Bloomberg Law News. In a sealed order, Judge John H. Chun of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed part of the lawsuit but denied Amazon’s motion to dismiss the entire lawsuit. At present, it is not known which part of the case has been tossed, and which will move forward. The American Booksellers Association will continue to monitor the case and provide updates as warranted. Banned Books Week Thank you to the booksellers, stores, and authors who collaborated with American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) during and leading up to Banned Books Week! Special thanks go to Politics and Prose, Books & Books, The Nonbinarian Book Bike, Books Are Magic, the Brooklyn Public Library, The Word | A Storytelling Sanctuary, Shop at MATTER, and Powell’s Books, who hosted and participated in events featuring The ABA Right to Read Handbook. And thank you to the booksellers, authors, and illustrators who joined Philomena in conversation at these events — Hannah Oliver Depp, Paula Farmer, Alan Gratz, Maureen Johnson, Frederick Joseph, Niña Mata, Eliot Schrefer, and Ramunda Lark Young — as well as everyone who came by to say hello at PNBA. Rinderle, et al. v. Cobb County School District, et al.
ABFE has joined Penguin Random House, the National Council of Teachers of English, and Freedom to Learn Advocates in an amicus brief against the Defendants' motion to dismiss in Rinderle, et al. v. Cobb County School District, et al. The brief argues Cobb County School District's policies constitute viewpoint discrimination that violates core First Amendment freedoms. Katherine Rinderle is a former public school teacher who was fired in 2022 after reading My Shadow is Purple by Scott Stuart to her students. In the years since Rinderle's firing, book bans have continued in Cobb County. |
