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RIGHT TO READ DEFENSE COM. v. SCHOOL COM., ETC.

Civ. A. No. 77-2318-T.

454 F.Supp. 703 (1978)

RIGHT TO READ DEFENSE COMMITTEE OF CHELSEA et al., Plaintiffs, v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF the CITY OF CHELSEA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

July 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burnham, Sterns & Shapiro, Jonathan Shapiro, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Robert I. Tatel, Thomas D. Edwards, and Richard L. Dahlen, Boston, Mass., for defendants.

OPINION

TAURO, District Judge.

At issue is the decision by a majority of the Chelsea School Committee (Committee) to bar from the High School Library an anthology of writings by adolescents entitled "Male and Female Under 18" (Male & Female). The Committee's action was prompted by a Chelsea parent's objection to the language in one selection, "The City to a Young Girl" (City), a poem...

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