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According to HG.org, here are 15 bizarre laws that might be enforceable in Texas. 15 strange enforceable laws in Texas No. 1: Selling your organs. Tex. Pen. Code. §48.02 says it's illegal to sell ...
Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
Blue Willow estimated it would cost $200 to $1,000 per book to comply with the law and $4 million and $500 million to rate books already sold — when its annual sales are just over $1 million ...
The Huffington Post reported in 2013 that Virginia still has on its books the so-called "fornication law," which prohibits any person who is not married from having sex. The act is punishable as a ...
The Republican lawmaker said in a letter sent to districts across Texas that the books might violate a new state law that restricts the ways teachers can talk about “currently controversial ...
Banned Books Week has expanded its goals to include advocating for literary freedom in schools, libraries, and all places involving books. Its most current goal is "to teach the importance of our first Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed availability of ...
The Laws of Life: Halliday Sutherland: 1935 Non-fiction Banned in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education and Calendar-based contraceptive methods – even though The Laws of Life had been granted a Cum permissu superiorum endorsement by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster. [169] Honourable Estate: Vera Brittain: 1936 Novel
The court ruled that it is unconstitutional for officials to remove library books with the "intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree."