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Some of the nation°®¶¹´«Ã½™s largest book publishers joined authors and parents of high-school students in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday challenging a 2023 law that increased scrutiny of school library books, arguing that the law unconstitutionally violates speech rights.

Penguin Random House LLC; Hachette Book Group, Inc.; HarperCollins Publishers LLC; Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC; Simon & Schuster, LLC; and Sourcebooks LLC alleged in the lawsuit that their books °®¶¹´«Ã½œhave been targeted for removal or removed from school libraries°®¶¹´«Ã½� throughout the state following last year°®¶¹´«Ã½™s passage of the law (HB 1069).