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A Muslim inmate who won a U.S. Supreme Court case to grow a beard claims Arkansas officials retaliated against him by transferring him out of state ...
The Arkansas Board of Corrections is accusing Attorney General Tim Griffin of playing politics with a public records request and a lawsuit over its decision to hire an outside lawyer to challenge two ...
Spirit Lake and Turtle Mountain tribes challenged redistricting map • 8th Circuit rules only DOJ can sue under Section 2 of ...
The lawsuit followed an eventful week for the 44-year-old mayor, who was arrested on tax charges on June 25 and has been ...
Helena-West Helena Mayor Christopher Franklin has named a circuit court judge and a county prosecutor in a civil rights ...
Seven Arkansas families have filed a federal lawsuit to block a new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms in the state, arguing that the law will ...
Davis spoke about being a young attorney from Arkansas – where he also worked as a lawyer, filing some of the first lawsuits seeking to integrate Arkansas schools – who moved to Texas in the ...
The purpose of the lawsuit, according to Bailey's attorney with the ACLU Shelby Shroff, is to establish a precedent in Arkansas for people to have the right to record police conduct.
An Arkansas State Police officer is being sued by the ACLU after he "violated the constitutional rights" of a woman at this year's Salt Bowl, according to the group.
12:30-12:37 THE ARKANSAS ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE US COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS JUST RELEASED A FEDERALLY FUNDED STUDY CALLING FOR MORE PUBLIC DEFENDERS IN ARKANSAS.
A new report by the Arkansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is highlighting serious issues with Arkansas' public defender system.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dustin Roberts and Devon Still of the Western District of Arkansas, Special Litigation Counsel Michael J. Songer and Trail Attorney Lia Rettammel from the Civil Rights ...