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

A law in Arkansas that threatened librarians and booksellers if they were found to have provided “harmful” content to minors ...

Obama-appointed Judge Timothy Brooks struck down the law stating that it is “vaguely worded” and “violates the due process rights of professional librarians and booksellers and the First ...

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

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

Portions of an Arkansas law that would have subjected librarians to criminal charges for letting kids check out books deemed ...

it is likely they will shelve only books fit for young children and segregate or discard the rest," U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas wrote in his ruling.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks found that elements of the law are unconstitutional. “I respect the court’s ruling and will appeal,” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said in a ...