 | Gay LR Couple Give Thoughts Ahead of Supreme Court Arguments
Supreme Court will hear arguments on Prop 8 and DOMA.
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 | Ark. Supreme Court reverses ruling on FOI law
The Arkansas Supreme Court has overturned a lower court's ruling that declared the state's Freedom of Information law unconstitutional, finding that the issue is one for the Legislature, not the courts.
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 | Court says schools can keep excess money
A split Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that school districts where property tax collections exceed state-mandated school funding levels can keep the money.
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 | Ark. Supreme Court to hear arguments in El Dorado
Justices are traveling to El Dorado this week to hear oral arguments in a case involving a nearby chemical plant.
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 | Arkansas Supreme Court thanks retiring justices
The Arkansas Supreme Court is wishing two retiring justices well.
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 | Ark. court rejects casino measure for Nov. ballot
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a proposed ballot measure that would have given a professional poker player the exclusive rights to operate casinos in four counties.
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 | Supreme Court: No double jeopardy in murder trial
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Arkansas ruling that a man could be retried on a capital murder charge even though the jury forewoman said jurors were unanimous in finding him not guilty.
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 | Ark. court hears arguments in death penalty case
Lawyers for several Arkansas death row inmates argued Thursday that the state's lethal injection law ought to grant condemned prisoners the same protections extended to animals in a euthanasia law.
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 | Retired Justice Stevens speaks in Arkansas
Wednesday night, Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens spoke at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
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 | High court upholds Obama health law by 5-4 vote
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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 | AR Supreme Court to hear public record case
Lawyers who tried to obtain documents under Arkansas' public records law say a lower court erred when it said the documents were exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
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 | How the health care decision could impact your coverage
Wednesday, FOX16 visited DataPath, a Little Rock-based software company that works with employee benefit plans to find out how Thursday's health care decision could impact your health insurance coverage.
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 | Impact of the federal healthcare law on Arkansans
Many Arkansans now wonder how Thursday's Supreme Court ruling and the federal healthcare law will affect them.
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 | Ticketmaster subject to state law, court says
The Arkansas Supreme Court says the state's law on deceptive practices applies to Ticketmaster and its parent company — but the high court offered no opinion on whether the company's fees violate the statute.
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 | Ark. high court: Errors not enough for new trial
The Arkansas Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling giving a new trial to a Perry County man serving a 145-year prison sentence.
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 | Ark. Supreme Court lets Lepanto mayor keep office
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Steve Jernigan was legally elected mayor in 2010 because he keeps a residence inside the city limits.
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 | Court won't hear appeal from Alamo followers
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from followers of evangelist Tony Alamo who had their children taken away when they wouldn't agree not to expose them to the controversial ministry.
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 | Ark. court to hear arguments in death row case
The Arkansas Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case of a man who was convicted in a double murder more than a decade ago.
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 | Ark. court: Use-of-force reports public records
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that reports from police officers that explain why they use force against someone are not exempt from the state's public record law.
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 | High court overturns teacher-student sex law
The Arkansas Supreme Court has struck down the state's law banning sexual contact between teachers and students, finding that people 18 or older have a constitutional right to engage in a consensual sexual relationship.
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 | AR Supreme Court hears case over who owns lottery name
What's in a name? If the name is "Arkansas Lottery", it's worth fighting for all the way to the Arkansas Supreme Court. One man owns the trademark, but right now he can't use it.
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 | Ark. Supreme Court to hear nursing home case
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.
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 | Ark. justice urges review of criminal code
An Arkansas Supreme Court justice called for a review of the state's criminal code on Thursday after the court overturned a man's 25-year sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon because of two conflicting laws regarding habitual offenders.
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 | Former Arkansas justice Tom Glaze dies at 74
Former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Tom Glaze, who fought election fraud as a trial attorney and as a jurist defended the high court's involvement in a landmark school funding case, died Friday. He was 74.
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 | Ark. court to hear arguments over power agreement
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.
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 | Ark. court splits in nighttime search warrant case
The Arkansas Supreme Court says law enforcement officers acted in good faith when they searched a trailer at night because they thought children might be in danger.
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 | High court to decide double jeopardy question
The Supreme Court will decide whether a jury forewoman's offhand comment that the jury was unable to make a decision on a murder charge means the suspect can't be retried on that charge.
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