James Dean Walker v. A. L. Lockhart, Superintendent of the Arkansas Department of Corrections

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• observing that, in such cases, the movant asks the court to “maintain the status quo until the court rules on the merits of the legal action to which the movant is a party.”
• “[W]here the movant has raised a substantial question and the equities are otherwise strongly in his favor, the showing of success on the merits can be less.”
• the court maintains a flexible approach when applying the factors and balancing the equities between the parties, and the court “need not engage in detailed analysis of [movant’s] probability of success on the merits”

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