Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1992

The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed and remanded, holding that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of the Bakers' failure to wear seat belts because the defendant failed to prove that the nonuse was a proximate cause of their injuries.

The court affirmed the denial of access to unredacted records from a police lieutenant promotion assessment. It held that releasing candidates’ identities alongside records documenting potentially humiliating behavior would invade personal privacy, and that disclosure of anonymized assessor reports adequately served…