Legal Opinion
Gregory Holt v. Michelle Howard
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 27, 2015No. 14-3064PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Gregory Holt, an incarcerated felon, brought this case against the state of Arkansas and Michelle Howard, an employee of the Little Rock Police Department, alleging that the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Howard had denied Holt’s pro se request for documents about an individual he had assaulted because the Act only permits an incarcerated felon to request information of public record through an attorney. The district court 1 concluded that the Act was constitutional and granted…
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