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Arkansas's foray into sports betting represents a significant shift in the Mountain West athletic scene. The introduction of regulated sports betting in Arkansas has transformed the landscape of sports fandom and set a new standard for how the ...

Civil rights groups are appealing a federal court ruling that could make it harder to enforce key voting protections for people of color under the Voting Rights Act.

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From Kidd v. State, decided today by the Arkansas Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Chief Judge Brandon Harrison, joined by Judges Rita Gruber and Kenneth Hixson: Kidd and M.C. met at a private high school with ten to fifteen students. She [Kidd] was a senior. He [M.C.] was…

An interesting opinion by the Arkansas AG's office, rejecting a proposed popular name and ballot title for a draft initiative.

Two congregations are currently locked in a dispute over the rights to an 108-year-old church in Crossett

From Arkansas AG opinion 2023-034, issued two weeks ago: [T]he content-moderation policies for the Arkansas Department of Transportation's "official social media account(s) (such as Twitter, IDRIVE, Arkansas Instagram, Facebook, etc.)" …, which describe the Department's social-media accounts as "limited public forums," authorize the Department to "remove or reject" "user generated…

For better and worse, the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has come to represent the overlooked cultural divisions between urban and small-town America.

A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government – not private citizens or civil rights groups – could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Who can sue to enforce key voting protections for people of color under the Voting Rights Act could be severely limited by a lawsuit out of Arkansas, which may be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Silicon Valley founders Phil Libin and Tammy Sun are launching the concept from their new hometown.