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Potential New Traps in Handling Workplace Accommodations (In The Workplace 2025)
Due to some recent legal changes, employers should ensure their process for determining whether an employee can be reasonably accommodated — or if it would be an undue hardship on the company — is up to date. read more >
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Supreme Court Will Take Up State Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care. The […] read more >
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Supreme Court Makes It Harder for NLRB to Win Court Orders in Labor Disputes
The court rejected a rule that some courts had applied to orders sought by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of a higher threshold, sought by Starbucks, that must be met in most other fights over court orders, or injunctions. read more >
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Supreme Court Again Confronts the Issue of Abortion, This Time Over Access to Widely Used Medication
Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion opponents on Tuesday will ask the high court to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to the medication mifepristone. read more >
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Supreme Court Seems Favorable to Biden Administration Over Efforts to Combat Social Media Posts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely Monday to side with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social […] read more >
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Supreme Court Limits Federal Power Over Wetlands, Boosts Property Rights Over Clean Water
It's the second decision in as many years in which a conservative majority of the court narrowed the reach of environmental regulations. read more >
Supreme Court Sides With Arkansas in Unclaimed Checks Case
Arkansas led a coalition of states in the lawsuit against MoneyGram International. read more >
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Consumer Agency
The case that could threaten how the watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau functions. read more >
Leveritt, ACLU Want Supreme Court Review of Pro-Israel Pledge
A ruling last week against the Arkansas Times has pushed its publisher to the doorsteps of the nation's highest court. read more >
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Civics Education Matters (Joseph F. Kolb Commentary)
The number of Americans who can name the three branches of government in 2021 was — you guessed it, just 56% — slightly over half of “We the People.” read more >
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Hutchinson: Arkansas Employers Should Wait for SCOTUS Decision on Worker Vaccine Mandate
The rule took effect Monday but the governor said businesses should not comply. read more >
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U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge to Obama Health Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama era health care law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans. read more >
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Lawsuit Challenges Arkansas’ Near-Total Abortion Ban
Abortion rights supporters file a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' near-total ban on the procedure that's part of an effort by conservatives to force the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Roe v. Wade decision. read more >
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Asa Hutchinson Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban Into Law
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs into law legislation banning nearly all abortions in the state, a sweeping measure that supporters hope will force the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its landmark Roe v. Wade decision. read more >
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State Senate Panel Advances Near-Total Ban on Abortions
An Arkansas Senate panel advances legislation aimed at forcing the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade by banning nearly all abortions. read more >
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High Court Lets 2015 Arkansas Law Regulating PBMs Stand
In a ruling seen as a win for local pharmacies, The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that prevented a 2015 state law regulating pharmacy benefit managers from going into effect. read more >
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GOP Tries Again to Get Supreme Court to Ax Health Care Law
A week after the 2020 election, Republican elected officials and the Trump administration are advancing their latest arguments to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, a long-held GOP goal. read more >
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Elaine Massacre Memorial Set for Unveiling
A three-day period of killing in the Arkansas Delta a century ago will be commemorated with the Elaine Massacre Memorial, to be dedicated across the street from the Phillips County Courthouse in Helena on Sept. 29. read more >
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Walmart Sex Bias Case Dealt Blow
A federal judge in Florida ruled earlier this month that 79 women with claims of sex discrimination against Walmart must file their cases against the Bentonville retailer as individual lawsuits, rather than as a group. read more >
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An Accurate Census Benefits All (Editorial)
An undercount could hurt all Arkansans in a couple of ways — first, by understating their political significance and leaving them underrepresented in Congress, and second, by preventing them from benefiting from all the taxpayer-supported programs to which they’re entitled. read more >
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