The jurist, Timothy Brooks, in a case entitled Fayetteville Public Library v. Crawford County, invalidated a provision ...

A report issued in November by an Arkansas advisory committee tasked with identifying challenges to the state effectively ...

A report issued in November by an Arkansas advisory committee tasked with identifying challenges to state effectively providing proper legal defense for indigent people reached one overriding ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Act 372, which puts librarians -- and potentially booksellers -- in criminal ...

The current Crawford County library director has fired the latest shot across the bow of the Quorum Court in the ongoing ...

As Alabama lawmakers appear primed to open librarians to criminal charges, a federal judge last week ruled that a similar Arkansas law is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks struck ...

Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled in favor of Arkansas libraries suing the state over a 2023 law created to limit ...

On Monday, federal judge Timothy Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas permanently blocked the state from enforcing the most controversial sections of Act 372, calling them unconstitutional.

The law, which threatened imprisonment if librarians or booksellers provided ‘harmful’ content to minors, violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled.

A law in Arkansas that threatened librarians and ... judge over concerns related to free speech. U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that two parts of the law, stating booksellers’ and ...

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that two parts of Arkansas Act 372 — which Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed in 2023 — are overly broad and vague, and violated ...