Lawyer shot while allegedly trying to rob armored car
ABA Journal
APRIL 29, 2024
An Arkansas lawyer was taken to the hospital Wednesday after he was allegedly shot by an armored car employee during an attempted robbery, according to…
Federal appeals court upholds order blocking Arkansas abortion restrictions
JURIST
JANUARY 7, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld an order on Tuesday blocking Arkansas laws that ban abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy and abortions due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. Kendall Turner of O’Melveny & Myers, a lawyer for the clinic, stated that they were pleased with the court’s decision.
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Arkansas Pol Sentenced In Federal Court On Corruption Charges
The Crime Report
APRIL 25, 2023
Former Arkansas State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson was sentenced to 50 months in prison on Tuesday as part of a federal corruption case, Doug Thompson reports for Arkansas Online. That 50 month sentence states with an additional 46 month term Hutchinson was sentenced to in state court.
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How are Pain and Suffering Damages Calculated in an Arkansas Accident Claim?
LegalReader
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Unlike many other states, Arkansas doesn’t cap the value of pain and suffering damages in accident claims. .
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Lawyer pleads guilty in scheme to defraud program intended to benefit farmers subjected to discrimination
ABA Journal
AUGUST 8, 2022
A lawyer in Little Rock, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud Thursday for his involvement in a scheme to file false claims…
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What Laws are Meant to Help Prevent Accidents in Arkansas?
LegalReader
JUNE 2, 2022
The state of Arkansas has made reckless driving a criminal misdemeanor.
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Daddy Dearest: Hunter Forced to Appear in Arkansas in Fight Over His Child’s Name and Support
JonathanTurley
APRIL 30, 2023
On Monday, Hunter Biden will finally make it to Arkansas. Despite assembling a new Legion of Doom of high-priced lawyers and advisers, Hunter is claiming that he simply cannot meet demands for child support. There is, however, a crushing Karmic aspect to Hunter being forced to appear in Arkansas. Yet, the DNA did not lie.
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“Doris Pryor, IU grad, will be the first Black judge from Indiana to join Seventh Circuit”
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 6, 2022
” Marilyn Odendahl of The Indiana Lawyer reports that “ Pryor makes history in confirmation to 7th Circuit.” ” And Max Brantley of Arkansas Times reports that “ Boozman, Cotton oppose historic confirmation of Arkansas native to circuit court judgeship.” ” Yesterday, the U.S.
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Afternoon Briefs: Lawyer for accused Capitol rioter says ‘biatch’ less offensive; charge dropped against Boies Schiller partner
ABA Journal
APRIL 27, 2021
Lawyer for accused US Capitol rioter says ‘biatch’ is less offensive A lawyer for accused U.S. Capitol rioter Richard “Bigo” Barnett of Gravette, Arkansas, has…
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How Does Workers’ Compensation Work in Arkansas?
LegalReader
JUNE 7, 2022
There are limits on how much compensation a person may collect. Your exact benefits calculations will be based on your unique injuries and how much money you were earning at your job before you were injured.
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Is Arkansas a “No-Pursuit” State?
LegalReader
JANUARY 5, 2023
Pursuing at a safe speed is recommended when hostages are involved or if there’s heavy traffic. .
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How Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Works in Arkansas
LegalReader
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Most agencies offer bankruptcy courses online, but some also offer the courses by telephone or in-person.
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Why are Log Trucks So Dangerous in Arkansas?
LegalReader
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Another important risk to consider is the possibility of logs falling off the truck and striking innocent motorists.
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Morning Docket: 09.02.21
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
No -- Arkansas. Environmental lawyers, you're up. [ Bet she's even madder about maderna [sic]. NBCNews ] * I can't believe they're secretly using prisoners as test subjects! ABCNews ] * Horton hears empty acres as trees die out. News4Jax ].
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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder
The Crime Report
MAY 20, 2021
Only 11 states report having minimum qualifications for lawyers who represent impoverished people facing a lifetime behind bars, according to the nonprofit Sixth Amendment Center. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial.
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Texas Doctor Sued for Violating State’s Abortion Ban
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Oscar Stilley, a former Arkansas lawyer convicted of tax fraud in 2010, said he decided to file a lawsuit to test the constitutionality of the Texas measure after reading a news report about Braid’s declaration.
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DivorceHelp123 Makes It As Easy As … Well … 1-2-3 For Family Lawyers to Intake Clients, Collect their Data, Generate Filings, Plan Scenarios, and More
LawSites
OCTOBER 5, 2023
It also integrates with Dropbox, for lawyers who prefer to store their documents there.) In the years since, that product was subsumed into DivorceHelp123, which itself started as a Colorado-specific product but evolved into a product for lawyers in any state. Enable the client to directly add data and upload documents.
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MyVirtual.Lawyer to Receive James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering
LawTechnologyToday
JANUARY 19, 2021
MVL was created as a law firm model in Central Arkansas by founder, Brooke Moore, who worked closely with the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission to explore law firm models that would allow the average consumer access to a legal professional and assistance with navigation of the legal system in a more approachable, convenient, and affordable way.
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Texas doctor sued by two private citizens in first lawsuit brought under strict state abortion law
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Curiously, Stilley describes himself in his Complaint as “a disbarred and disgraced former Arkansas lawyer…currently on home confinement, in the custody” of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Prisons. Further, Stilley requests injunctive relief to prevent Braid from performing any further abortions.
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A Farewell to Kenneth Starr, a Great Lawyer and a Decent Man
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
As someone who was able to work with Starr in litigation, I can honestly say that Starr was one of the best lawyers that I have seen in court. It would take him first to Harding University, a Church of Christ-affiliated school in Searcy, Arkansas and then to George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Starr loved being a lawyer.
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Former Public Radio Reporter Among Those Charged In Molotov Cocktail Attack Against Police Vehicles
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 30, 2020
One of the individuals charged in the firebombing of police cars during Black Lives Matter protests in Arkansas turns out to be a former public radio reporter, Renea Goddard, 22. She worked for Arkansas Public Media after being awarded the George C. This was reportedly her second arrest connected to a Black Lives Matter protest.
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The Importance of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached a New Low in Seeking to Bar Daughter From Using His Name
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 15, 2023
Hunter Biden’s disgraceful treatment of his daughter has long been on display in Arkansas where he long denied being her father, fought paternity, and was threatened with contempt of court over his failure to supply needed documents. More recently, the Arkansas Supreme Court in Huffman v.
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A Year-End Review of the Environmental Regulatory Landscape
Gravel2Gavel
DECEMBER 28, 2021
Our guest today is Anne Idsal Austin, a nationally recognized environmental lawyer who has held several high-profile federal and state regulatory roles. Prior to that, she served as the EPA regional administrator for Region 6, overseeing all federal environmental programs in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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Court declines to hear death-row inmate’s claim of juror’s racial bias, prompting dissent from liberal justices
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2022
Instead, Sotomayor explained, the state court ruled that even if the trial judge was wrong to allow Niesman to be seated on the jury, Love could not show that he was harmed by that mistake because the judge had given his lawyer two extra peremptory challenges – which he had already used by the time Niesman was called.
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States tell justices to deny Texas request to overturn 2020 election
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2020
The four states were represented by their attorneys general and other state officials, but Georgia was also represented by several private lawyers, including a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and Joseph Hunt, who served as the assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice during the Trump administration.
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Little Rock to Pay $8500 Settlement in Public Records Lawsuit
LegalReader
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The city will pay local lawyer and blogger Matt Campbell an estimated $8,500 to reimburse him for the time he spent researching a public records claim.
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Court allows bar on Tulsa’s enforcement of municipal laws against Native Americans to remain in place
SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 4, 2023
It agreed with the city that, when it was enacted, the Curtis Act gave the power to prosecute violations of municipal ordinances to municipalities in Indian Territory, like Tulsa, that were organized under a pre-statehood process base on the laws of neighboring Arkansas.
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In historic first, Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed to Supreme Court
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 7, 2022
Jackson’s sterling credentials, her endorsements from conservative lawyers and leading law-enforcement groups, and the historic nature of her nomination seemed to leave Republicans with relatively little fodder to attack her nomination. But a few days before Jackson’s hearing began, Sen.
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“This. Should Deeply Trouble Us All”: Hunter Biden Reportedly Planning a Second Amendment Defense
JonathanTurley
JUNE 2, 2023
While most courts have upheld the ban on drug users, Hunter’s lawyers reportedly told the Justice Department that they will challenge the law under Bruen where a six-justice majority declared that such limitations must be consistent with the practices during the founding period. He is now trying to reduce those payments.
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Pennsylvania Woman Killed By Roommate’s Three Pit Bulls
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 6, 2021
Indeed, that was the evidence used in the famous case from San Francisco involving lawyers and dog owners Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel. States like Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Arkansas, Michigan, Louisiana, and Kentucky have breed specific laws barring or limiting certain dog breeds, including pit bulls.
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Don’t Look Back: Why the Innocent Sometimes Stay in Prison
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 19, 2022
In that new venue he carefully lays out the story of efforts to prove the innocence of Charlie Vaughan, an illiterate Arkansas prisoner serving a life sentence for a murder to which another man—who said he did not even know Vaughan—confessed. Doyle is a Boston defense lawyer and author, and a regular columnist for The Crime Report.
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How a veteran sketch artist offers a peek into oral arguments in the work-from-home era
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Unlike when the court is open, he could not observe and draw the lawyers arguing cases in real time. Arkansas Solicitor General Nicholas Bronni, Rutledge v. The court now allows live-audio streaming of its arguments — a step forward in transparency and access. But still, no one could see what was happening. Lien changed that.
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Court issues orders from “long conference,” but relists some high-profile cases
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2021
In the case of Arkansas inmate Mickey Thomas , Sotomayor similarly conceded that “Thomas’ claim does not satisfy this Court’s traditional criteria for granting” review. The district court awarded the plaintiffs’ lawyers $14.5 Farell , a class-action lawsuit involving the legality of a $35 overdraft fee charged by Bank of America.
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ABA Midyear Meeting 2018
LegalTalkNetwork
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Included but not limited to, this meeting also addressed rising costs in legal education, the death penalty, lawyer wellness, advertising rules, women in politics, compounding pharmacies, and the needs of the small firm and solo. ABA Midyear 2018: How Lawyers Can Help Homeless Youths. ABA Midyear 2018: Rules of Lawyer Advertising.
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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021
CourtTechBulletin
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Arkansas offers an online system to pay traffic tickets or set up a scheduled payment plan using a credit card at: [link] The California courts have had their Self-Help Center online for many years at: [link] And they have an announcement that they are working on a new step-by-step format that one can preview here.
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ABA Midyear Meeting 2019
LegalTalkNetwork
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
From ABA President-Elect Judy Perry Martinez updating us on gun violence, lawyer wellness, and legal education to author Bill Burnett sharing his wisdom on “Designing Your Life” as well as detailed discussions on jury selection, socio-economic bias in the courts, ABA Blueprint, gatherings of federal judges, human trafficking, Tinker v.
January Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: Issues/Programs Lists; Digital LPTV Deadline; Audio Description Expansion; Children’s Programming, Webcasting Royalties; NCE FM Settlement Window; and More
Broadcast Law Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2021
However, as always, stay in touch with your station’s lawyers and other regulatory advisors for the dates applicable to your operations. As the holiday season comes to an end and 2022 comes into focus, broadcasters have several dates and deadlines to keep up with in January and early February.
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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive
Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
23] Such laws are already on the books in Arkansas, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, some of which limit the amount and type of funding entirely. [24] 24] At the Federal level, the U.S. ” Amer.
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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. LEXIS 78 “On October 12, 1993, Randall Goodwin went to a Wal-Mart store located on 6th Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Walmart 2001 Ark.
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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. On October 12, 1993, Randall Goodwin went to a Wal-Mart store located on 6th Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. LEXIS 78. “On
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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. On October 12, 1993, Randall Goodwin went to a Wal-Mart store located on 6th Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. LEXIS 78. “On
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