‘Incredibly damaging’: Court revives defamation lawsuit filed by librarian accused of promoting ‘erotic contents’ to kids

Background: Lousiana librarian Amanda Jones (WBRZ/YouTube). Inset: Courtroom in Louisiana (WBRZ/YouTube).

Background: Louisiana librarian Amanda Jones (WBRZ/YouTube). Inset: Courtroom in Louisiana (WBRZ/YouTube).

The Louisiana Supreme Court is allowing a defamation lawsuit filed by a librarian accused of promoting pornography and “erotic contents” to children to be reheard, saying she has a right to have the “very specific allegations” hurled against her two years ago proven in court by her accusers after the case was tossed out due to a late appeal.

“If defendants can prove that plaintiff did the things they claim, then the truth is a defense,” wrote Justice Jefferson D. Hughes III in a Dec. 27 writ of certiorari to Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeal in agreement with the Supreme Court‘s 4-2 decision that Friday. “If they cannot, they have defamed the plaintiff.”

The group that brought the allegations forth against Livingston Parish librarian Amanda Jones — Citizens for a New Louisiana — was sued by Jones in 2022, along with executive director Michael Lunsford, for defamation after they publicly accused her of promoting porn and “erotic contents” to minors by placing “inappropriate” books in the “kid’s section” of her library. Jones says she was attacked after speaking up at a public meeting about library censorship that year. She filed a petition for damages for defamation and requested injunctive relief against Citizens for a New Louisiana, Lunsford and a local resident named Ryan Thames, who has a child in the Livingston Parish school system and operates a Facebook page called Bayou State of Mind, which shared the allegations about Jones.

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