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REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Edwards v. Beck

4:13-cv-00224 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 16, 2013

Case Ongoing

On April 16, 2013, two Arkansas physicians ("the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas challenging the Arkansas General Assembly's ban on abortion starting at twelve weeks of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, sued fifteen members of the Arkansas State Medical Board, including the board's president, and asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent enforcement of …
CHILD WELFARE
Brandt v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00450 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 25, 2021

Case Ongoing

On April 6, 2021, the Arkansas legislature passed H.B. 1570 — the "Save Adolescents from Experimentation” (SAFE) Act — over the governor’s veto. The Safe Act banned healthcare professionals from providing gender transition procedures, including puberty blockers and hormones, to anyone under 18 or from referring anyone under 18 to any healthcare professional for such procedures. Additionally, the SAFE Act prohibited coverage of gender transition procedures for minors by Medicaid or private insur…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Hayes v. Rutledge

4:21-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 30, 2021

After the Coronavirus pandemic emerged in early 2020, the US Federal Government mobilized to bolster the US economy by creating advanced tax credits, also known as stimulus payments. While Congress explicitly stated the eligibility of incarcerated folks for these stimulus payments, the State of Arkansas passed an act—Act 1110—on April 26, 2021, which allowed Arkansas’ Department of Corrections (ADC) to seize any "federal relief or stimulus funds" from people in its custody. This act prevented a…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma v. Smith

4:17-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 20, 2017

Closed Date: April 8, 2019

Two abortion providers, Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma and Little Rock Family Planning Services, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on June 20, 2017, where it was assigned to Judge James Moody. The plaintiffs sought to enjoin the Arkansas Department of Health from enforcing a provision of a state law known as Act 383 that required the Arkansas Department of Health to revoke the licenses of any abortion-providing medical facili…
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Jegley

4:21-cv-00453 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one in a string of challenges to Arkansas’s abortion access restrictions. A few months prior to the suit, the Eighth Circuit enjoined the state’s pre-viability bans on abortion via Act 493 (criminalizing abortion at 18 weeks) in Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge. The present case was filed in response to Arkansas Act 309 (“Act 309”), signed into law in March 2021, which effectively prohibited abortion in nearly all cases and imposed criminal penalties on doctors who …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Hopkins v. Jegley

4:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 20, 2017

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging abortion restrictions in the state of Arkansas. On June 20, 2017, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and abortion provider, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiff sued the Prosecuting Attorney for Pulaski County and the Arkansas State Medical Board under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Rights …
FAIR HOUSING/LENDING/INSURANCE
Kilpatrick v. City of Newark

1:18-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 16, 2018

Closed Date: March 3, 2020

This lawsuit, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, challenged a Newark city ordinance that prohibited manufactured homes worth below $35,000 from existing within city limits. The ordinance stated that violations would be punished by fines up to $500 per day for living in a mobile home with an insufficient value. On July 16, 2018, potential renters and homeowners that sought to be part of the Newark community brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that the ord…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Easley v. Howell

6:21-cv-06125 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2021

Case Ongoing

Arkansas was the only state in the country that provided landlords the option of a criminal eviction process when tenants failed to pay rent on time. Criminal charges could be brought against a tenant if three elements were met: (1) a landlord alleged that a tenant was behind on rent, regardless of the truth of the allegation and even if the tenant was only one day late; (2) the landlord notified the tenant in writing that they must leave their home because they were behind on rent; and (3) the…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Frazier v. Kelley

4:20-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 21, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a putative class action brought on April 21, 2020, by eleven individuals held at the Arkansas Department of Corrections, requesting reasonable accommodations for those incarcerated who face health risks from COVID-19. The plaintiffs sought a TRO and preliminary injunction requesting the immediate release and home confinement of those who are at high-risk due to age or medical conditions, and those with disabilities. The plaintiffs' TRO and preliminary injunction were d…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Whitfield v. Thurston

4:20-cv-00466 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: April 29, 2020

Closed Date: July 2, 2021

COVID-19 Summary: This case, initially being tracked by the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, was filed by two independent candidates for public office, seeking various changes to Arkansas’ ballot access provisions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 24, 2020, the district court denied the plaintiffs’ requested relief and entered a judgment in favor of the defendant, the Secretary of State of Arkansas. One plaintiff appealed the decision, but the Eighth Circuit dismissed the appeal…