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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JURIST

AUGUST 26, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday that Arkansas may not prohibit doctors from providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth in the state. ” A federal judge granted plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction last year, and Arkansas appealed.

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JURIST

AUGUST 17, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Tuesday held that Arkansas’ three-drug execution protocol does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Asa Hutchinson , was initially brought by death-row prisoners seeking to avoid the execution protocol in Arkansas.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

The states sought Supreme Court review , but it was denied. Another challenge brought in Arkansas failed, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit affirmed that ruling. And the 6th Circuit concluded that the annual fees did not represent impermissible commandeering.

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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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Missouri Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which blocks former President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan from taking effect. The plaintiffs in the case are the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

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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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Above The Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

Arkansas Supreme Court chief justice says dispute over her authority could lead to litigation; Baker again says she hopes to pick new Administrative Office of the Courts director: Tess Vrbin of Arkansas Advocate has this report. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing.

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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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