A federal appeals court foreclosed on Wednesday one of the main remaining means by which civil rights activists could enforce ...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules private individuals and groups can't sue over racial bias in voting in seven Midwest ...

A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal Voting Rights Act.

A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down one ... The 8th Circuit includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision overturned a 2023 decision by a North Dakota federal judge that found the state’s 2021 redistricting plan unlawfully diluted the tribes’ voting power ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court has overturned a gag order that had silenced public discussion in the widely followed case of ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court denied a request on behalf of the social media app TikTok to have the Arkansas lawsuit against it ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s dismissal of the attorney general’s lawsuit against the state ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court released opinions Thursday. The court's ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Supreme ... Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox dismissed the lawsuit in January 2024, saying that Griffin failed to comply with a court order to either ...

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under ...