They are represented by law firms BraunHagey & Borden LLP in California and Wittliff Cutter PLLC in Austin.ĭefendants are Llano County Judge Ron Cunningham county commissioners Peter Jones, Linda Raschke, Mike Sandoval, and Jerry Don Moss library system Director Amber Milum and Library Advisory Board members Gay Baskin, Bonnie Wallace, Rochelle Wells, and Rhonda Schnieder. Plaintiffs are Leila Green Little, Jeanne Puryear, Kathy Kennedy, Rebecca Jones, Richard Day, Cynthia Waring, and Diane Moster. 23.ĭocuments sought include all emails on county librarians’ Yahoo! accounts as well as emails and all attachments that pertain to the issue from the defendants. The motion claims defendants are withholding documents they are required to produce in the process leading up to trial, which is scheduled for Oct.
Also under consideration by Pitman is a motion to compel discovery filed by the plaintiffs. District Judge Robert Pitman on the injunction. Constitution.īoth sides now await a formal ruling by U.S. The hearing was part of a lawsuit filed in 2022 that charges Llano County officials with banning books based on their own political beliefs, a violation of the first and 14th amendments to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division. The defendants’ brief is the final one to be filed related to a two-day hearing on the request for an injunction held in October in the U.S. Milum has declared and testified under oath that she weeded those 17 books for reasons unrelated to their content or viewpoints.” “Amber Milum alone made the decisions to weed each of the 17 disputed books from the library shelves. “The plaintiffs’ claim that the disputed books were weeded because ‘the defendants’ disapproved of the content or viewpoints in those books is false,” an introduction to the brief reads. The brief further states that one of the defendants, Amber Milum, the library system director, is the only person who removed the books and that she used standard industry criteria in making her decisions.
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