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''Board of Education v. Pico'', 457 U.S. 853 (1982), was a case in which four Justices of the United States Supreme Court concluded that the First Amendment limits the power of local school boards to remove library books from junior high schools and high schools, four Justices concluded the contrary (with perhaps a few minor exceptions), and one Justice concluded that the Court need not decide the question. ==Facts== According to the syllabus of the case: :Petitioner Board of Education of the Island Trees Union Free School District, rejecting recommendations of a committee of parents and school staff that it had appointed, ordered that certain books, which the Board characterized as "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Sem()tic, and just plain filthy," be removed from high school and junior high school libraries. Respondent students then brought this action for declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Board and petitioner Board members, alleging that the Board's actions had denied respondents their rights under the First Amendment. The District Court granted summary judgment in petitioners' favor. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded for a trial on the merits of respondents' allegations. Eleven books were involved in the case. The books were:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/457/853/case.html )〕 * Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. * The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris * Down These Mean Streets, by Piri Thomas * Best Short Stories of Negro Writers, edited by Langston Hughes * Go Ask Alice, of anonymous authorship * Laughing Boy, by Oliver LaFarge * Black Boy, by Richard Wright * A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, by Alice Childress * Soul On Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver. * A Reader for Writers, edited by Jerome Archer * The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud According to footnote 3 of the case, the first nine titles above were removed from shelves of the High School library; A Reader for Writers was removed from the Junior High School library; and The Fixer was removed from the curriculum of a 12th grade literature course.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Island Trees School District v. Pico」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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