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172012P.pdf 09/05/2018 Ronald Duhe v. Little Rock Arkansas, City of
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-2012
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Wollman, Circuit
Judge]
Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging plaintiffs' arrests at a
demonstration at a family planning clinic were without probable cause and
violated their First Amendment rights, officers had probable cause to
arrest plaintiffs for violating the Arkansas disorderly conduct statute
based on their personal observations, as well as information provided to
them, which indicated that the plaintiffs' use of amplified sound was
disrupting neighboring businesses and that they had obstructed traffic by
blocking the clinic's driveway; plaintiffs have standing to challenge the
constitutionality of Arkansas's disorderly conduct statute, but the
statute is not void for vagueness or overbroad; plaintiffs do not have
standing to challenge the constitutionality of Little Rock's Permit
Ordinance, on its face and as applied, as they were not arrested or
charged under the ordinance and they were not prohibited from protesting
even though they had lacked a permit; delay in plaintiffs' release from
jail did not violate their Fourth Amendment rights and was not
unreasonable.