A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice a case that sought to change the way Arkansas voters elect judges in a way that, the plaintiffs claimed, would better represent the racial makeup of the state.
Graduating at the top of the final Southeast Junior-Senior High School class of 1970, Freddie Scott had his future before he even thought about playing football some more.
The son of a retired circuit court judge who filed a lawsuit against an Arkansas State Police trooper alleging racism as the basis for a 2020 traffic stop was handed a partial victory this week by a federal judge who ruled the trooper was protected by qualified immunity for the stop and search but not for leaving the man in handcuffs after determining he would not be arrested.
The son of a retired circuit court judge who filed a lawsuit against an Arkansas State Police trooper alleging racism as the basis for a 2020 traffic stop was handed a partial victory this week by a federal judge who ruled the trooper was protected by qualified immunity for the stop and search but not for leaving the man in handcuffs after determining he would not be arrested.