The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has signed a letter from the National Coalition Against Censorship to the Paterson Free Public Library in Paterson, New Jersey. The letter was sent in response to the library banning the play of first-person shooters on library computers. The letter takes library officials to task for subscribing to the [...]
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Gaming Ban in NJ Library
February 5th, 2013 
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Tags: CBLDF, Censorship, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, ComicPop Library, First Amendment, National Coalition Against Censorship, New Jersey, Paterson, Paterson Free Public Library, United States Constitution, Video Games 
Comments OffCBLDF joins with Others to Defend Neonomicon
June 19th, 2012 RAB The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has joined the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression in writing a letter to the Greenville County Public Library, in South Carolina, to defend Alan Moore’s Neonomicon. The following is the letter from http://cbldf.org/homepage/cbldf-teams-with-ncac-and-abffe-in-defense-of-alan-moores-neon. I thought it was very well written and worth the [...]
Posted in News Tags: ABFFE, Aeschylus, Alan Moore, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Beloved, Board of Education v. Pico, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel, CBLDF, Censorship, Charles Brownstein, Chris Finan, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Constitution, First Amendment, From Hell, Graphic Novel, Greenville, Greenville County Public Library, H.P. Lovecraft, Jacen Burrows, Joan Bertin, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls, Lovecraft, National Coalition Against Censorship, NCAC, Neonomicon, Oresteia, South Carolina, Supreme Court, Time Magazine, Toni Morrison, V for Vendetta, Watchmen Comments OffLiberty Cards Available
September 12th, 2011 RAB Here is a way that your patrons, that enjoy comic books and manga, can support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF). Cryptozoic Entertainment is releasing the CBLDF Liberty Trading Cards this week. This Fund helps store owners and individuals that have been arrested for selling or owning comic books or manga that some find [...]
Posted in News Tags: CBLDF, CBLDF Liberty Trading Cards, CBLDF Trading Cards, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, First Amendment, Liberty Trading Cards, Trading Cards, United State, United States First Amendment Comments OffSupreme Hands Down Decision on Brown v. EMA
June 27th, 2011 RAB The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has announced on their sight that the Supreme Court has handed down a decision in the Brown v. EMA case. The court struck “down the California law that attempted to ban the sale and display of violent video games to minors in a 7-2 decision”. Justice Scalia wrote the [...]
Posted in News Tags: Brown v. EMA, CBLDF, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, First Amendment, Justice Scalia, Supreme Court Comments OffCBLDF at ALA
June 22nd, 2011 RAB The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) will be attending the American Library Association’s Conference this week. If you are their and reading this or a getting ready to go stop by their booth #1749. Friday night CBLDF is co-sponsoring with First Second Books a Live Art Event from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Some [...]
Posted in News Tags: ALA, American Library Association, Astronaut Elementary, Babymouse, Babysitters Club, Ben Hatke, CBLDF, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Dave Roman, Eric Wight, Feynman, First Amendment, Frankie Pickle, Jennifer L. Holm, Jim Ottaviani, Raina Telgemeier, Zita the Spacegirl Comments OffPlaying Video Games at the Supreme Court
June 16th, 2011 RAB The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s site has posted a short article over Video Games. The Supreme Court is currently looking at a case Brown v. EMA. In this case California is seeking an appeal on a law the state passed, that minors can not purchase video games that have violent content because it is [...]
Posted in News Tags: CBLDF, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Constitution, First Amendment, Gamers, Gaming, United States Constitution, Video Games Comments OffUtah and the 1st Amendment
June 10th, 2011 RAB Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s site has a report of a coalition the organization has joined. The coalition is working to have one of Utah’s proposed statues defeated. The statue is on censoring the Internet and was passed in 2005, but has not been enforced. It is currently in the courts – Florence v. Shurtleff, [...]
Posted in News Tags: CBLDF, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, First Amendment, Florence v. Shurtleff Comments OffJefferson Muzzels
April 22nd, 2011 RAB Each year the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression awards the Jefferson Muzzel Awards. The awards are to point out, “abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment.” Linked below is the listing of the eight reciepeants of the Jefferson Muzzel [...]
