Lawsuit Seeks to Declare Key Sections of Act 372 Unconstitutional

Arkansas infamously passed the first law in the nation to try to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth in 2021. After hearing extensive evidence presented by four transgender youth and their families challenging Arkansas’ HB1570, the courts blocked that ban as unconstitutional.

We are deeply disappointed by the Arkansas legislature's decision to pass a bill that would greatly expand medical malpractice claims only against doctors who provide life-saving and life-changing care to transgender minors.

The Supreme Court today declined to review the Arkansas Times’ legal challenge to an Arkansas law requiring government contractors to certify that they are not boycotting Israel or “Israeli-controlled territories.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas released the following statement from Holly Dickson, ACLU of Arkansas Executive Director, responding to Governor Sanders rebuttal to the State of the Union address:

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas (ACLU of Arkansas) today criticized Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin for joining Texas and other states in urging a federal judge to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, cooperating attorneys John E. Tull III and Noah P. Watson settled a federal lawsuit on behalf of Arkansas poll worker Barry Haas.

SB43, filed by Senator Gary Stubblefield (R-26) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R-73), would revise Arkansas law to classify drag “performances” as an “adult-oriented business,” pitting drag brunch and story hour alongside sex shops, peep shows and strip clubs to limit the areas in which drag queens...

A federal appeals court will hear arguments involving a 2021 lower court ruling in an Arkansas redistricting case that radically concluded private parties may not sue to protect their voting rights under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.