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Legal counsel: Conway will comply with Act 573 posters until court issues injunction; ACLU seeks to add district to lawsuit
Summary
General counsel told the board the ACLU has moved to add Conway to litigation over Act 573, which requires posting a Ten Commandments display; until a court order says otherwise the district will comply with the law, she said.
Conway School District General Counsel Shasta Wagner told the board Thursday the ACLU has filed to add the district to ongoing litigation that seeks to block implementation of Act 573, the Arkansas statute that requires placement of a Ten Commandments poster in certain public facilities.
Wagner said the suit originated in Northwest Arkansas and currently involves several districts that have received an injunction preventing implementation in those districts. She said Conway…
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