An Orange County Superior Court judge Friday ruled in favor of a challenge to Huntington Beach’s library restrictions on lending materials to children.

Judge Lindsey E. Martinez rejected the city’s demurrer motion to dismiss the legal challenge from Alianza Translatinx, a nonprofit group for transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex individuals focusing on the Latino community, and a 15-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl who attend school in Huntington Beach as well as the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and the First Amendment Coalition.

The lawsuit argued the city’s restrictions, which became moot due to voters approving a ballot measure in June, violated the state’s Freedom to Read Act.

City officials did not immediately respond to requests for c

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