Bicknell V. Vergennes Union High School
In 1979, the Vergennes Union High School Board of Directors ordered the removal of two books, The Wanderers and Dog Day Afternoon, from the school library's collection. The school librarian Elizabeth Phillips and others challenged the removal in the federal court case Bicknell v. Vergennes Union High School. A U.S. District Court judge dismissed the case holding that school boards had the final authority to determine the inclusion or removal of works from school library collections. In 1980, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the dismissal.
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