UALR law professor loses round at Arkansas Supreme Court - Arkansas Times

The Arkansas Supreme Court today denied UALR law professor Robert Steinbuch’s appeal that he should be declared a prevailing party in a lawsuit in which he attempted to obtain information about UALR law students.

Steinbuch, under the Freedom of Information Act, requested a spreadsheet that included the name, law school admission test score, law school and undergraduate grade point averages, race, sex, full- or part-time status, residency, graduation month and bar-passage information for every student over a ten-year period. This was to gather information on an attack on affirmative action in law school admission. Steinbuch is a Federalist Society contributor. A settlement was worked out with the university, which had provided a redacted version of the information to protect students’ privacy rights.

In an effort to win attorney fees for his lawyer, Steinbuch sought an order that he was the prevailing party. You can read the fine points of the legal argument here, but suffice it to say he was denied. He failed, in part, because he didn’t address a lower court’s finding that said, if the motion had been timely, “the only factual determination the court would have made would have been that the plaintiff caused a massive waste of judicial time and taxpayer monies.”

The Supreme Court dismissed another motion to waive record fees charged in the case by Circuit Clerk Terri Hollingsworth because it wasn’t ripe for appeal. A hearing ordered earlier by the Supreme Court has not yet been completed. The opinion was written by Justice Courtney Hudson.

source: https://arktimes.com/news/2022/04/07/ualr-law-professor-loses-round-at-arkansas-supreme-court

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