The case study centers on the 2008 effort to remove the children’s book And Tango Makes Three from elementary school libraries. The decision in Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico (1982) provides the keystone of the federal decision-making arena vis-a-vis ruling on a book banning case. This study found that Pico was not a major influence in the decision-making process. Additionally, it was not the school board but the district superintendent who ultimately engaged in the decision-making process about the book’s status in the library. The findings of this study indicate that the free speech rights of public school students were not a central area of focus during the book challenge, thus a gap in the plurality opinion in Pico and the district decision-making.