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• Today, the Court granted the government’s request for a writ of certiorari in NCLA’s challenge to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ unilateral bump-stock ban.
• Garland v. Cargill will be NCLA’s fourth case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in under 2 years.
• As these cases show, we will fight all the way to the Supreme Court to protect civil liberties from federal agencies’ attacks.
• We are confident the U.S. Supreme Court will right this wrong for Michael Cargill and all Americans.”

• Some of these efforts have resulted in laws that threaten to jail librarians.
• Bans – and the banning of bans – have already ended up in the courts.
• They alleged that school officials violated students’ First Amendment rights when they removed books that discussed, race, racism and LGBTQ+ people.

Encounters with new ideas

• The case specifically focused on the school library and was not about curriculum in the classroom.
• One student, on behalf of four other students in the school district, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.
• The suit claimed that removing the books from the library infringed upon the students’ First Amendment rights to freely access ideas and information.

An unclear ruling

• The ruling was divided – five justices affirmed the appeals court’s decision in favor of the students, though not all of them agreed on exactly why.
• Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens signed on to this opinion, which was not a majority opinion.
• Two justices wrote concurring decisions, but only one agreed with the trio’s overall conclusion that the board had unconstitutionally infringed on students’ rights.

The current state of the law

• Therefore, they ruled, school officials may remove books only for sound educational reasons or legitimate purposes – such as pervasive vulgarity or lack of educational suitability.
• If any of the current cases reach the Supreme Court, the current justices could rule differently, of course.

• DUBAI, UAE, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Entering in its 9th year, Hozpitality Group opened free online nominations for the 9th Middle East Hospitality Excellence Awards 2023.
• For more information on the awards, please visit www.hozpitalityexcellenceawards.com ," said Raj Bhatt, CEO, Hozpitality Group.
• These are popular choice awards for the hospitality Industry where selections are purely done on basis of online voting, added Raj.
• We have been supporting Raj and Hozpitality Group every year for the Chef Awards, F&B Awards and Hospitality Awards and we are always excited to support them, he added.

• See the C100 winners here: https://tinyurl.com/2s3w28jz
  CISOs work tirelessly to safeguard organizations across the globe, often without the recognition they deserve.
• "Congratulations to the C100 winners," said Prologis CISO Sue Lapierre, a member of the CISO Board of Judges.
• What differentiates these awards from other industry honors is the transparency of the process, with defined eligibility criteria and a declared board of judges to choose the winners.
• There were over 700 nominations both self-submitted and submitted by third parties on behalf of CISOs who met the established criteria.