PEN America v. Escambia County School Board
Protect Democracy represents PEN America in litigation challenging the constitutionality of book bans in Escambia County.
October 28, 2022
Shalini Goel Agarwal
Special Counsel & Team Manager, Free Expression and the Right to Dissent
Shalini Goel Agarwal serves as special counsel at Protect Democracy working to combat anti-democratic disinformation through litigation and advocacy. Previously, she was a senior supervising attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center working on criminal justice reform and a staff attorney at the ACLU of Florida. Shalini clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley Law.
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“Speech codes have no place in American society, and elected officials have no business censoring the speech of business owners simply because they don’t agree with what’s being expressed,” Shalini Goel Agarwal, Protect Democracy counsel, said in a statement. “Barring employers from engaging in speech that powerful politicians don’t like is a move straight out of the authoritarian playbook.”
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