"Foul-Mouthed Patron Drops Lawsuit" is the headline in a recent report in the journal American Libraries. The report begins:
A patron who sued the Ann Arbor (Mich.) District Library after being banned for using obscene language has dropped his federal lawsuit.
In a December 6 letter to U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh, author Fredric Maxwell asked that his case be dismissed because he no longer lives in Ann Arbor, the Ann Arbor News reported December 8. Maxwell said he did not have the ?time, resources, or inclination to continue returning from the California sun to the Michigan snow to be an unpaid change agent for a town where I used to live.?
Mr Maxwell is the author of the book Bad Boy Balmer, a copy of which is in the library.