Elbert County News: The Elizabeth School District has filed its formal response to a recent federal lawsuit and request for preliminary injunction from the ACLU of Colorado, concerning the district’s suspension of 19 books from school libraries. The injunction, filed Dec. 20, asks that the removed books be returned to ESD libraries and would stop the school board from continuing to remove books.

The school district’s response, “Defendant’s Opposition to the Preliminary Injunction,” was filed on Jan. 27 in U.S. District Court in Denver.

The district’s filing gives an explanation of its rationale in the Library Protocols and Book Lists and argues that the plaintiffs who sued in December do not make a convincing argument for granting the injunction.

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