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UPDATE: Facing contempt citation, lawyer exits suit against police chief

Police officers will have to find a new lawyer.
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Judge orders attorney fees in challenge of state GIF pork barrel scam

Circuit Judge Chris Piazza today issued his formal order that the Ogles Law Firm should be paid $323,266 in attorney fees for successfully representing Mike Wilson of Jacksonville in his challenge of the unconstitutional scheme by which legislators doled out millions in General Improvement Fund (surplus) money to pet local projects.
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Judge again orders attorney fees in GIF scam lawsuit

Judge Chris Piazza has again ordered payment of $323,267 in attorney fees to John Ogles for his legal work, along with Mike Wilson, in Wilson's third challenge of unconstitutional pork barreling by the Arkansas legislature.

Another candidate for retiring Judge Piazza's seat

Another candidate has announced to succeed retiring Circuit Judge Chris Piazza in elections next March.
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Deputy prosecutor announces for judge

The latest judicial candidate for one of several seats to be open due to retirement in Pulaski County this year is Chief Deputy Prosecutor Hugh Finkelstein.

Judge won't back effort to stop demolition of bridge at Clarendon

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported this morning that a deadline to work out a deal to save the abandoned U.S. 79 bridge at Clarendon had passed with no deal between preservationists and the state. It was no surprise.
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Monument destroyer acquitted on account of mental disease

Circuit Judge Chris Piazza today found Michael Tate Reed innocent of a first-degree criminal mischief charge for knocking down the new Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds with his car.  The judge cited mental disease or defect for the acquittal.

Piazza denies use of unspent pork barrel money, awards $323,267 in legal fees against state

Judge Chris Piazza said not another dime in unspent General Improvement Fund money can go to local projects, because that would be unconstitutional. He ordered a refund of almost $1 million improperly allocated, less more than $323,000 in attorney fees for the lawyer who handled the challenge.
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Ten Commandments destroyer found unfit to stand trial, hospitalized

Circuit Judge Chris Piazza decided this morning that Michael Tate Reed, charged with demolishing the Ten Commandments Monument on the Capitol grounds shortly after it was installed, was unfit to stand trial and ordered him committed to the State Hospital to see if he could ever be fit for trial. J

Arkansas Supreme Court says legislative pork barrel scheme unconstitutional, reverses Piazza

The Arkansas Supreme Court today reversed a lower court ruling by Judge Chris Piazza and declared that Mike Wilson' had properly challenged spending of state surplus — the General Improvement Fund — as unconstitutional.
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Two years of marriage equality and the American family still stands

Stories from newlyweds the day the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans on same-sex marriage is a reminder of a time when, for a brief period, Arkansas was on the cutting edge.

Judge Piazza preserves legislative pork barreling ruse

Circuit Judge Chris Piazza delivered a windfall to pork barreling legislators Tuesday by dismissing the lawsuit by Mike Wilson of Jacksonville attacking the money laundering machine legislators set up to get around the constitutional prohibition against spending on local projects.
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