Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-4989-7133
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Keywords
School desegregation, Little Rock, Richard Arnold, Civil rights, Race, Eighth Circuit
Abstract
This article proceeds as follows. Because it is first necessary to recount some of the history of the Little Rock school cases, Part I discusses the origins and early steps in the long-running litigation. Part II considers the period from 1982 until 2004 when Richard Arnold was a member of the appellate panel assigned to the school cases. This part identifies three critical points of the Eighth Circuit's intervention under Judge Arnold's leadership. In Part III, I suggest how Arnold's motivations for his decisions in the Little Rock school cases related to both his particular view of the limitations of public law litigation and his own personal history.
First Page
611
Publication Title
Arkansas Law Review
Recommended Citation
Polly J. Price, The Little Rock School Desegregation Cases in Richard Arnold's Court, 58 Ark. L. Rev. 611 (2005).
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