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Edwards v. Beck

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

Filed Date: April 16, 2013

Closed Date: March 14, 2014

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) The ACLU filed this lawsuit in 2013 asking the court to block an Arkansas law that would ban almost all abortion care starting at 12 weeks of pregnancy. 
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…
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 …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hill v. Pulaski County

4:79-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 1979

Closed Date: 2000

On October 25, 1979, inmates of the Pulaski County Jail in Arkansas filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas challenging the conditions of that facility. In 1985, the parties entered into a consent decree that established population limits for the jail and required the sheriff of Pulaski County to notify the Court if anyone attempted to contravene the agreement. Test2 On November 10, 1988, the sheriff filed noti…
EDUCATION
Department of Education investigation of Fayetteville Public Schools

98-6971182 | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 1997

Closed Date: June 17, 1999

This Title IX matter was apparently the first time the federal government agreed that harassment against an LBGT student constituted unlawful sex discrimination. Accordingly, its 1998 settlement was a landmark -- albeit one that very few people know about.On February 25, 1997, a gay high school student filed a complaint under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, against Fayetteville (AR) Public Schools. The student, represe…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Phillips v. Weeks

4:72-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 1972

Closed Date: 1984

In January 1972, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging a pattern and practice of police brutality towards African-American visitors to Little Rock, Arkansas. The class consisted of all black persons who ever resided or visited the City of Little Rock, Arkansas. The trial began in December of 1974 and lasted 30 days. No pattern and practice of police brutality was found, but some specific incidents were substantiated. The pa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Campbell v. Cauthron

78-01838 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: 1978

In 1978, inmates at the Sebastian County jail filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Eighth Amendment, alleging that their constitutional rights were violated by overcrowding and lack of exercise, inadequate diet, forced exposure to religious witnessing, restricted visitation privileges, denial of access to newspapers, insufficient medical care, and inadequate security. The United States District Court for the Wes…
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United States of America v. Junction City School District

69-01095 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: 1969

The resolution attached says that the U.S. brought suit in 1969. I think this is wrong, because 253 F.Supp. 766 has the same docket number as listed in the resolution (1095), but was published in 1966.