A legal victory to overturn a Florida book-banning law won’t instantly return books on the shelves, but it will help shift the momentum to fight censorship, according to a publishing company attorney.

“If a district did not put the books back, then they are risking a lawsuit,” said Dan Novack , a vice president and associate general counsel for Penguin Random House . “If you don’t do the right thing, a student or a parent or an author or publisher or an educator can vindicate their rights now.”

A federal judge ruled earlier this week that the state’s 2023 law on banning pornographic books is too broad and violates the First Amendment.

The world’s biggest publishers — as well as several bestselling young adult authors and two parents from Florida — united to file a federal laws

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