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

Holly Dickson, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, said the law “was an attempt to ...

Republicans passed the law in 2023, joining other conservative states and counties that have sought to restrict the ...

Two key provisions of Act 372, a law which would allow criminal charges to be pressed against librarians and other book ...

A federal judge struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and ...

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Brooks on Monday (Dec. 23) issued an order striking down key provisions in Act 372, an ...

Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled in favor of Arkansas libraries suing the state over a 2023 law created to limit access by minors to sexually explicit m ...

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 federal judge declared parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers ...

"The County failed to tell Judge (Timothy L. Brooks) that it paid their lawyers ... less than what other similarly skilled attorneys in Arkansas charge. "Based on Mr. Meadors' experience, skills ...

A federal judge has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to begin producing documents related to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by two Arkansas journalists from 2022.