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Patron Files Federal Suit Fighting Ban from Ann Arbor LibraryA library patron has taken his fight over being banned from the Ann Arbor (Mich.) District Library to federal court.Fredric Alan Maxwell filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan June 24 asking for $115,000, a full-page public apology in several newspapers, and other unspecified damages, according to the July 26 Ann Arbor News. Maxwell, acting as his own attorney, claimed his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was banned from the library for one year in January for using obscene language. In addition, he accused Library Director Josie Parker and the library board of libel and defamation of character. Maxwell told the News that he hated the idea of taxpayer dollars being spent to defend his suit and that it could have been avoided with an apology. Library attorney Richard Landau would only say, “We will defend this matter at the appropriate time.” No date has yet been set for oral arguments by U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh. Posted July 2, 2004. |
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