Arkansas' highest court on Thursday said a city can't enforce its ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, saying it's already ruled the measure violates a state law aimed at preventing local protections for LGBT people. The court in 2017 ruled the ordinance violated the state law. In Thursday's ruling and the previous decision, the court did not rule on whether the state law was constitutional. The court in 2017 rejected the city's argument that it was allowed because LGBT protections are included in other parts of state law. Martin had ordered sponsors of Arkansas' law on local LGBT protections to testify and produce documents in the lawsuit.

Source: ABC News January 31, 2019 17:26 UTC