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Arkansas Act 372 was signed by the Arkansas governor on March 31, 2023. [1] Sections one and five of Arkansas Act 372 expose librarians and booksellers to criminal penalties, [ 2 ] which includes up to a year in prison, in the case they distribute materials such as books , magazines , and movies deemed "harmful to minors."
Name [2] [3] Start date [2] [3] End date [2] Last election Arkansas Constitution of 1836 [citation needed] 1st Arkansas General Assembly [Wikidata] September 12, 1836 March 5, 1838 2nd Arkansas General Assembly [Wikidata] November 5, 1838 December 17, 1838 3rd Arkansas General Assembly [Wikidata] November 2, 1840 December 28, 1840
Two key provisions of Act 372, a law which would allow criminal charges to be pressed against librarians and other book content providers, was declared unconstitutional.
On November 11, 2015, former Justice Donald L. Corbin, one of the original justices to hear the case, revealed that the court had voted 5–2 to strike down the same-sex marriage ban in 2014. Corbin said he had written a majority opinion finding that Arkansas' ban on same-sex marriage violated both the Arkansas and U.S. constitutions.
The General Assembly of Arkansas is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 100 members. All 135 representatives and state senators represent an equal number of constituent districts.
The first attorney general of Arkansas was Robert W. Johnson. The Arkansas Constitution of 1868 made the post elective, though it required only that the attorney general “perform such duties as are now, or may hereafter, be prescribed by law.” This was reaffirmed in the constitution of 1874. Act 131 of 1911 laid out four general ...
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McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education, 529 F. Supp. 1255 (E.D. Ark. 1982), was a 1981 legal case in the US state of Arkansas. [1]A lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by various parents, religious groups and organizations, biologists, and others who argued that the Arkansas state law known as the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and ...