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Rehnquist, joined by White. Hutto v. Finney, 437 U.S. 678 (1978), is a landmark Supreme Court case against the Arkansas Department of Correction. The litigation lasted almost a decade, from 1969 through 1978. It was the first successful lawsuit filed by an inmate against a correctional institution.
Holt v. Hobbs, 574 U.S. 352 (2015), was an American legal case in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an Arkansas prison policy which prohibited a Muslim prisoner from growing a short beard in accordance with his religious beliefs violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
John Goodson. . . (m. 2011; div. 2019) . Education. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (BA, JD) Courtney Rae Hudson (born 1973) is an American lawyer who has served an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. She was elected to the position in 2010.
The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC), formerly the Arkansas Department of Correction, is the state law enforcement agency that oversees inmates and operates state prisons within the U.S. state of Arkansas. DOC consists of two divisions, the Arkansas Division of Corrections (ADC) and the Arkansas Division of Community Corrections (DCC ...
State (s) Arkansas. Christina Marie Riggs (September 2, 1971 – May 2, 2000) was convicted of the November 1997 murders of her two children, Justin Dalton Thomas (age 5) and Shelby Alexis Riggs (age 2). [2][3] Riggs was a licensed practical nurse, and she planned to kill the children with injections of drugs she obtained from her hospital.
August 12, 2024 at 5:53 PM. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas police officer has been fired after he was caught on video beating a handcuffed inmate in the back of his patrol car, and the ...
adoption, LGBT rights. Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Howard, 367 Ark. 55, 238 S.W.3d 1 (2006), is a decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court in which the court unanimously overturned a state policy banning gay adults and their housemates from being foster parents.
Wiley Austin Branton (1923–1988) was a prominent civil rights lawyer and activist from Arkansas. [1] Branton rose to prominence after filing the suit against the Little Rock School Board which would eventually be heard before the Supreme Court. [2] After the trial, Branton moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he acted as the executive director of ...