Laws & Court Cases

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Aaron v. Cooper
aka: Cooper v. Aaron
Aaron v. Cooper, reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Ci...
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Act 10 of 1958 [Affidavit Law]
A special session of the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 10 in 1958 as one of sixteen bills designed to b...
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Act 112 of 1909
aka: Anti-Nightriding Law
aka: Anti-Whitecapping Law
Act 112 of 1909 was a law designed to curb the practice of nightrid...
Act 115 of 1959 [Anti-NAACP Law]
In 1959, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 115 as one of sixteen bills designed to bypass federal deseg...
Act 1220 of 2003
aka: Childhood Obesity Act
Act 1220 of 2003, which launched comprehensive efforts to curb chil...
Act 151 of 1859
aka: Act to Remove the Free Negroes and Mulattos from the State
aka: Arkansas's Free Negro Expulsion Act of 1859
The Arkansas General Assembly passed a bill in February 1859 that b...
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Act 250 of 2021
aka: Stand-Your-Ground Law
On March 3, 2021, Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law Act ...
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Act 258 of 1909
aka: Toney Bill to Prevent Lynching
Act 258 of 1909 was a law intended to prevent citizens from engagin...
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Act 346 of 2021
Act 346 of 2021, titled “An Act to Prohibit the Performance of a Pelvic Examination on an Unconscious or Ane...
Act 38 of 1971
Act 38 of 1971, which reorganized sixty state government agencies into thirteen cabinet-level departments, was...
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Act 401 of 1951
aka: Communist Registration Act
Also called the Communist Registration Act, Act 401 was approved in...
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Act 626 of 2021
aka: Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act
aka: HB 1570
Act 626 of 2021 was the first ever bill passed in the United State...
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Act 710 of 2017
aka: Anti-BDS Law
Act 710 of 2017 is a law intended “to prohibit public entitie...
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Act 76 of 1983
aka: Teacher Testing Law
Act 76 of 1983 was a law passed by the Arkansas General Assembly ma...
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Act 910 of 2019
aka: Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019
Act 910 of 2019 was a piece of signature legislation for Governor A...
Act 911 of 1989
aka: Arkansas Conditional Release Program
Act 911 of 1989 pertains to the evaluation, commitment, and conditi...
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Act 975 of 2015
aka: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The Arkansas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB975 of the 2015 r...
Adverse Possession
Cornell Law School defines adverse possession as “a doctrine under which a person in possession of land owne...
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
aka: Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith was a 1998 decision by the Eigh...
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Amendment 33
Amendment 33 was the first of three constitutional amendments ratified by voters in the decade after the begin...
Amendment 44
aka: Interposition Amendment
On November 6, 1956, Arkansans voted to adopt an amendment to the s...
Amendment 59
aka: Taxation Amendment
Amendment 59 was an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, ratifie...
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Amendments 19 and 20
aka: Futrell Amendments
Amendments 19 and 20 to the Arkansas Constitution, which are common...
"Act 320 makes cohabitation between the white and Negro races a felony punishable with not less than one month nor more than one year in the penitentiary" newspaper clipping
Anti-miscegenation Laws
Anti-miscegenation laws were edicts that made it unlawful for African Americans and white people to marry or e...
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Antitrust Laws and Lawsuits (Progressive Era)
Antitrust laws and lawsuits against monopolistic corporations were major features of both state and national p...
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Arkansans for Limited Government v. Thurston
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 precedent-shattering decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health O...
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Arkansas Blood Labeling Bill
aka: HB 385
On April 2, 1959, Governor Orval E. Faubus signed HB 385 (Blood Lab...
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Seizure of Arkansas Cannon
aka: United States v. Six Boxes of Arms
This court case involved the seizure of a cannon in the North inten...
Arkansas Civil Rights Act of 1993
aka: Act 962 of 1993
The Arkansas Civil Rights Act (ACRA) was the first civil rights act...
Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes
In 1992, when the Arkansas Educational Television Commission (AETC) sponsored a debate for candidates in the T...
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Arkansas Freedom of Information Act
aka: Freedom of Information Act
aka: FOIA
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), signed into law by ...
Arkansas Married Woman's Property Law
Under the common law that prevailed in all American jurisdictions except Louisiana, once a woman married, all ...