Mainstream Loudoun v. Board of Trustees of Loudoun County Library

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRINKEMA, District Judge.

BACKGROUND

At issue in this civil action is whether a public library may enact a policy prohibiting the access of library patrons to certain eon-tent-based categories of Internet publications. Plaintiffs are a Loudoun County nonprofit organization, suing on its own behalf and on behalf of its members, and individual Loudoun County residents who claim to have had their access to Internet sites blocked by the defendant library board’s Internet policy. They, along with plaintiff-intervenors (“inter-venors”), individuals and other entities who claim that…