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The law requires all public libraries in the state of Louisiana to "adopt a policy to limit the access of minors to sexual explicit material." Libraries throughout the state were given a deadline of June 1, 2024 to implement new policies, with failure to do so resulting in the state withholding payments for library maintenance and upkeep. [102]
Strange laws. 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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...
School districts in 26 states have banned or opened investigations into more than 1,100 books, according to an April 2022 report from PEN America. More states banning books as restrictive ...
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15 strange enforceable laws in Texas No. 1: Selling your organs Tex. Pen. Code. §48.02 says it's illegal to sell human organs in Texas: your eyes, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, skin, and other ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll. Children's Novel/Adventure. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT 's government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings.
The state's law says drug dealers must buy drug tax stamps at a rate of $100 per ounce of marijuana, $150 per gram of controlled substances, or $500 per 50 dosage units of controlled substances ...