Six of the largest U.S. book publishers are suing Florida education officials, challenging a new state law that the plaintiffs say allows the removal of books from school libraries based on “an empty and meaningless overbroad standard.”

Penguin Random House, HarperCollins Publishers, Simon & Schuster, other publishers and authors filed the federal lawsuit Aug. 29 in the Middle District of Florida. They allege that a provision of House Bill 1069, which was passed by the Legislature last year, violates the First Amendment rights of publishers, authors and students by allowing school library books to be pulled based on “pornographic” content or content describing “sexual conduct.”

The plaintiffs accuse Florida schools of banning hundreds of book titles across the state, including Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter-House Five and Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. And even if a district declines to affirm a community member’s objection to a book title, the objector can seek an appeal through a state-appointed magistrate.