TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Attorneys for the book’s authors and a student Friday quickly appealed a federal judge’s ruling that rejected a First Amendment challenge to a 2023 decision by the Escambia County School Board to remove the book “And Tango Makes Three” from school libraries.

The attorneys filed a notice of appeal three days after Chief U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor ruled against authors Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and the student, identified in the case by the initials B.G.

As is common, the notice does not detail arguments the plaintiffs will make at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But it started another chapter in legal disputes about decisions in Escambia County — and other parts of Florida — to remove certain books from library shelves.

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