Any illusion that judges are like neutral umpires whose role is to dispassionately “call balls and strikes,” as John Roberts ...

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks found that elements of the law are unconstitutional. “I respect the court’s ruling and will appeal,” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said in a ...

A report issued in November by an Arkansas advisory committee tasked with identifying challenges to the state effectively ...

A report issued in November by an Arkansas advisory committee tasked with identifying challenges to state effectively providing proper legal defense for indigent people reached one overriding ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 372, which puts librarians -- and potentially booksellers -- in criminal ...

The current Crawford County library director has fired the latest shot across the bow of the Quorum Court in the ongoing ...

An Arkansas Judge has struck down two provisions of Act 372 as unconstitutional, and keeps Gender Queer on the shelves.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks struck down two portions of the law, passed by the Arkansas legislature last year as Act 372, ruling that the portions of the law were unconstitutional on First and ...

On Monday, federal judge Timothy Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas permanently blocked the state from enforcing the most controversial sections of Act 372, calling them unconstitutional.

A law in Arkansas that threatened librarians and booksellers if they were found to have provided “harmful” content to minors has been struck down by a federal judge over concerns related to free ...

The law, which threatened imprisonment if librarians or booksellers provided ‘harmful’ content to minors, violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled.

A law in Arkansas that threatened librarians and ... judge over concerns related to free speech. U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that two parts of the law, stating booksellers’ and ...