JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb. 12 ruled that an Arkansas anti-BDS law violates the First Amendment. The Arkansas Times allowed that the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College required the paper to sign a pledge agreeing not to boycott Israel as part of an advertising contract.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote to express concern at the Eighth Circuit’s reversal of an Arkansas federal court ruling that recognized issues in the death penalty trial of Mickey Thomas. He’s been in solitary confinement for most of the last 30 years.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that bars the city of Tulsa from enforcing municipal ordinances against Native Americans. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on hold to give the city time to appeal. But two years later, the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In that new venue he carefully lays out the story of efforts to prove the innocence of Charlie Vaughan, an illiterate Arkansas prisoner serving a life sentence for a murder to which another man—who said he did not even know Vaughan—confessed.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

In August, a federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas may not prohibit doctors from providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth in the state. The post Human Rights Campaign critiques Utah Governor for signing law prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2024

A US federal court Wednesday blocked the Department of Education’s Final Rule prohibiting sex discrimination against LGBTQ+ students from taking effect in six states. The plaintiffs in the suit were Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Friday temporarily stayed the Biden administration’s federal student loan forgiveness plan. Last Thursday, a lower court ruled that the states lacked standing because their future harm was too speculative, and the case was dismissed.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling and ruled that employees at the Benton County jail in Bentonville, Arkansas, are immune from a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died of a drug overdose while in custody, Ron Wood reports for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

10, the court ruled unanimously in favor his clients. “I Arkansas Solicitor General Nicholas Bronni, Rutledge v. On the other end of the formality spectrum, Ramzi Kassem argued in October in Tanzin v. Tanvir over a paper-scattered desk in a hoodie sweatshirt. The casual atmosphere seemed to help him: On Dec. New Mexico (Oct.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

We recently discussed a federal court ruling that the Texas law requiring age verification and warning for porn sites was unconstitutional. Now, Judge Timothy Brooks in Arkansas has found that another state law imposing age verification requirements for social media violates the First Amendment. In Netchoice, LLC v.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

.” Mariah Timms of The Wall Street Journal reports that “ Appeals Court Curbs Voting Lawsuits Claiming Discrimination; If it stands, the 2-1 decision would mark a sea change in the law.” ” Fredreka Schouten of CNN reports that “ Appeals court strikes down key tool used to enforce Voting Rights Act.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday rejected the Biden Administration’s attempt to stay a lower court ruling which found President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unlawful. The three-judge panel denied Biden’s appeal in a one-page order without explanation.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2023

In Nebraska , the States of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina claimed the plan would deprive them of their tax revenue. The district court dismissed the suit for lack of Article III standing, stating they could independently alter their tax policies.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, sued Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulting from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas. These and other petitions of the week are below: Thacker v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2022

The state court, Sotomayor observed, never addressed Love’s contention that he had been deprived of his constitutional right to an impartial jury. In the wake of those developments, the Biden administration urged the court to send one case back to the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” particularly those with ravenous monkeys. Walmart 2001 Ark.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In the case of Arkansas inmate Mickey Thomas , Sotomayor similarly conceded that “Thomas’ claim does not satisfy this Court’s traditional criteria for granting” review. A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. The justices sent Biden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Grey , a member of the Arkansas legislature, told the Republican National Convention , “[B]lack people … know they cannot afford to vote for men who say to them when they desire to vote, ‘You have got your rights now; what more do you want?’ Way back in 1872, African American William H.

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