Smith v. Climer

This is a class action brought by Mary Jane Smith, a citizen and resident of Pulaski County, Arkansas, on behalf of herself and others similarly situated against Jerome Climer in his capacity as County Clerk and Permanent Voter Registrar of Pulaski County and as a representative of the other seventy-four County Clerks and Registrars in Arkansas, to secure an adjudication that the Arkansas durational residence requirements for voting in State and local elections appearing in Ark.Stats., Ann., section 3-707 are violative of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

After…