Having failed again to persuade the landlord-dominated Arkansas legislature to repeal the last criminal eviction statute in the United States, renter advocates have turned to federal court.

Lynn Foster, the retired law professor who’s president of Arkansans for Stronger Communities, announces:

On Sept. 2, Equal Justice Under Law, a national nonprofit, and the UA Little Rock Bowen School of Law Legal Clinic filed suit in federal court on behalf of Cynthia and Terry Easley, tenants, against Hot Spring County, alleging that Arkansas’s failure to vacate statute, which criminalizes the eviction process and is the only statute of its kind in the U.S., is unconstitutional.

It’s high time this bad law was challenged, and Arkansans for Stronger Communities, a nonprofit working for fair landlord-tenant law, hopes the suit is successful.

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