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The City of Caddo Valley faces another lawsuit from a small business owner in their own town.

A lawsuit filed against the City of Alexander and several law enforcement agencies cites an incident happening in 2011.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld an $11 million judgment an insurer for Arkansas Children's Hospital was ordered to pay a Mabelvale couple after a doctor operated on the wrong side of their son's brain.

A woman who accused a Jacksonville police officer of excessive force and civil rights violations after she was tased in front of her children while walking to church has settled her lawsuit against the city of Jacksonville and one of its police officers.

A lawsuit over who owns a $1 million scratch-off Arkansas lottery ticket that a woman pulled from a convenience store trash can was settled out of court, a defense attorney said Friday.

The Wynne Police Department will pay $150,085 in back wages and liquidated damages to 24 uniformed officers to resolve a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor for alleged violations of the overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Arkansas Democratic Party by a Tennessee attorney who wasn't awarded any of the state's delegates despite winning 42 percent of the vote in the party's presidential primary earlier this year.

The Arkansas Department of Education has asked the Pulaski County Circuit Court judge to dismiss them from a lawsuit filed by the Pulaski Association of Classroom Teachers and the Pulaski Association of Support Staff, the district's dismantled unions.

Maumelle water restrictions are easing, but not lifted, so residents are slapping the utility with a lawsuit claiming the restrictions are downright illegal.

New court dates have been set in a legal dispute over a $1 million lottery ticket that one Arkansas woman says she threw away and another plucked out of the trash.

The state erred by rejecting a proposed ballot measure that if passed, would grant a woman exclusive rights to operate casinos in several Arkansas counties, and voters should decide the issue in November, her attorney told the state Supreme Court on Thursday.

The mother of slain Little Rock TV anchor Anne Pressly should be allowed to proceed with a lawsuit against a hospital and three workers who illegally looked at her dead daughter's medical files despite a judge's ruling that privacy claims can't be pursued after someone's death, an attorney told the Arkansas Supreme Court Thursday.

A judge ruled Monday that a jury will hear a legal battle over a $1 million lottery ticket that one Arkansas woman says she threw away and another says she plucked out of the trash.

The case over who owns a winning $1 million Arkansas lottery ticket is set to go to trial next week.

Oral arguments are planned in a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Malvern parents who are challenging a provision of the state's school-choice law that factors in race when students wish to transfer to a new district.

The Sebastian County clerk who faces a harassment lawsuit filed by employees has lost his bid for another two-year term.

A judge has awarded a $5,000 judgment to a former Miller County jail inmate after he sued over an alleged assault in 2009.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Springdale filed by the former mayor of an Oklahoma town.

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary downplayed and hid risks associated with the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, a jury determined Tuesday in Arkansas' billion-dollar lawsuit against Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc

Three men are fired and police say arrests could follow in a scandal prompting one Arkansas man to sue the Lottery Commission.

A federal jury has awarded two men $300,000 in compensatory damages in a lawsuit alleging Riceland Foods retaliated against them for complaining about racial remarks made by their supervisor.

A federal judge has denied the state's motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the redrawn boundaries of an east Arkansas state Senate seat.

Arkansas' attorney general has filed court papers asking to intervene in a lawsuit by environmental groups against the federal government over pollution in the Mississippi River.

The U.S. government says it should be immune from civil lawsuits filed over the 2010 flash floods at the Albert Pike Recreation Area that killed 20 people.

Another wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Forest Service over flash flooding at the Albert Pike campground that killed 20 people in 2010.

A northwest Arkansas father has sued the Rogers School District, challenging the one-day suspension his 5-year-old son received for using a curse word at school.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has announced the settlement of two cases involving the pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories.

Attorneys for an Arkansas woman who threw away a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million say another woman who plucked the ticket out of the trash and claimed the jackpot should be forced to turn the money over to the court.

White County circuit judge Thomas Hughes removed himself from the lottery ticket trial case on Friday citing irregularities in the proceedings that could result in the questioning of his impartiality on the case.

A prosecutor says he wants to appeal a judge's order that cleared former Arkansas lawmaker and Harlem Globetrotter Fred Smith's record in a felony theft case that state Democrats say makes the ex-legislator ineligible to run for office.

Opponents of a $2.1 billion power plant in southwestern Arkansas want the state Public Service Commission to stop construction of the plant.

A federal judge says he will lift a temporary order that blocked a Freedom of Information Act request by Arkansas' attorney general for documents from the Little Rock School District.

A federal judge has scheduled a May 7 trial over a lawsuit that challenges the boundaries of a newly redrawn state Senate district in eastern Arkansas.

A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by a convicted former Arkansas mayor against various state and federal officials and members of the media.

Three Bryant city council members file a lawsuit against anonymous citizens for libelous remarks written on www.mysaline.com.

The lottery says to play their games for fun. But there's nothing fun about a protracted legal fight.

Two more entities are making claims to ownership of a $1 million Arkansas lottery ticket, over which two people are already suing each other in White County.

A new trial has been ordered in a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Springdale-based Tyson Foods Inc.

The Texarkana, Ark., School District says a federal jury was wrong to award $500,000 to a teacher fired after giving answers to three special-needs students taking an end-of-semester exam.

A man in southwest Arkansas is suing the city where he lives for installing a sewer lift station in his backyard without his permission.

The Arkansas Supreme Court is considering whether to allow a Little Rock businessman's lawsuit claiming that he owns the rights to the state lottery's name to move forward.

A lawsuit targeting anonymous users of the blog site mysaline.com isn't stopping those bloggers from sharing their opinions on the three Bryant council members who filed the suit.

Two more former college football players have sued the NCAA, saying it failed to protect them from concussions.

Labor officials have moved to cut off federal contracts held by one of the nation's largest meatpackers, saying it discriminated against women and non-Asians.  |   US Labor Department release (159.5KB)

A man whose wife died in the 2010 flash flood at an Arkansas campground that claimed 20 lives has filed a civil suit against the U.S. Forest Service.

A lawsuit filed by a former Heifer International executive has been dismissed with the parties reaching a mediated settlement.

The brother of a man who was strangled by another inmate in the Sebastian County jail is suing the county over the death.

The Arkansas Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments in a case in which a jury ordered a nursing home to pay more than $5 million following the death of a woman who attorneys say didn't receive proper care.

A federal judge has denied a request to move a civil lawsuit against jailed evangelist Tony Alamo from Texarkana.

The Arkansas Supreme Court will hear from a city in western Arkansas and a county across the state that are at odds over a power agreement.