One candidate is in the race for Position 4 on the Arkansas Supreme Court, currently held by Justice Jo Hart. Circuit Judge Morgan "Chip" Welch filed for the seat.
Nursing home spending on judicial racers is back front and center with news that the U.S. prosecutors' evidence against accused briber Gilbert Baker includes the record of text messages between him and a member of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reversed and dismissed a minimum-wage lawsuit against the state based on a sovereign immunity defense raised by the attorney general's office — even though the state had explicitly stated that it would not assert sovereign immunity when the suit first began.
"You are supposedly running a nursing home for veterans, and you’re saying the people that care for them can be underpaid for the state and have nothing [they can] do," Justice Jo Hart told the state's attorney.
Once again, those invested in the ongoing internal dysfunction at the Arkansas Supreme Court have some juicy reading. A pair of oral history interviews with recently retired justices Howard Brill and Cliff Hoofman have been posted to a growing collection of oral histories with retired Arkansas Supreme Court justices.
The Arkansas Supreme Court made no new law today in a decision over a dispute resolved by arbitration, but the case prompted a ringing dissent from Justice Josephine Linker Hart on the apparent preference in law for arbitration over judicial resolution.
The Arkansas Supreme Court today upheld most of a lower court ruling allowing a class action lawsuit against nursing home owner Michael Morton and one of his nursing homes.
The Arkansas Supreme Court last week delivered a blow to civil rights in Arkansas. It was another results-oriented decision that gives a clue to how far the justices likely will go to appease the legislature.
From Slate, news of a federal court ruling in South Carolina that runs contrary to the "wisdom" of the Arkansas Supreme Court on birth certificates for children of same-sex couples.
Chief Justice Howard Brill distributed a statement today on the end of his 16 months filling a vacancy in the seat by appoint of Gov. Asa Hutchinson. He'll return to teaching at the University of Arkansas School of Law. Omissions noted.