Specific Objection Required to Preserve Confrontation-Clause Challenges to Embedded Third-Party Statements (and Casual Private Remarks Are Nontestimonial) 1. Introduction In Nakii Holloway v. State...
Arkansas Adopts Proportional Discovery and Discovery-Specific Certification (Rule 26(g)) While Clarifying Rule 11’s Reach Over Discovery Motions 1. Introduction In In RE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT...
Delivery Pallets Are Not “Integral Parts” of Food Products for Arkansas’s Sales-for-Resale Exemption 1. Introduction In Tyson Chicken, Inc.; Tyson Mexican Original, Inc.; Abnd Tyson Poultry Inc. v....
Purposeful Intent in First-Degree Murder May Be Inferred from the Nature, Number, and Severity of Wounds, Use of Multiple Weapons, and Consciousness-of-Guilt Conduct I. Introduction In Israel Estrada...
Clerical Habitual-Offender Errors May Be Corrected on Appeal Without Remand (Affirmed as Modified) Introduction In Owen Watson v. State of Arkansas, 2026 Ark. 97, the Arkansas Supreme Court reviewed...
Inmate Challenges to ADC Policy Require a Pleaded Constitutional Liberty Interest (Not Mere Policy Misapplication) I. Introduction In Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Department of Correction, Division of...
Amendment 80 Fixes Jurisdiction: Circuit Courts Retain Original Jurisdiction Over Facial Constitutional Challenges; Legislature Cannot Confer Exclusive Original Jurisdiction on the Court of Appeals...
Conditional Nolle Prosequi Agreements Are Governed by Ordinary Contract Principles Introduction In State of Arkansas v. Luis Ramirez, 2026 Ark. 92, the Supreme Court of Arkansas addressed a novel...
Selective Sovereign Immunity Cannot Bar Federal Due-Process Claims; Illegal-Exaction Suits Proceed Despite Article 5, Section 20 I. Introduction In GARLAND COUNTY DISTRICT COURT; PROFESSIONAL...
Rule 33.1 Requires Element-Specific Deficiency Arguments—Not Element-Recitation—to Preserve Sufficiency Review in Bench Trials (and Class-Y “Certification” Issues Are Not Structural Error Absent...
Postconviction Challenges Cannot Be Recast as Civil Declaratory/Mandamus Actions; No Service, No Default, No Appealable Order I. Introduction In RODNEY BUNCH v. STATE OF ARKANSAS; WILLIAM MARTIN...
Speculative Threats of Prosecution Do Not Create Standing or a Justiciable Controversy for Declaratory Relief Challenging a Criminal Statute Introduction In Duane Gonder v. Tim Griffin, Arkansas...
Under Pre-2026 Arkansas UDITPA, One-Time Sale of an Entire Business (Including Intangibles) Is Nonbusiness Income Unless Regular Disposition Is Integral to Operations I. Introduction Jim Hudson, in...
Automatic Suspension and Deemed Surrender for Nonpayment of Arkansas Annual Attorney-License Fees Under Rule VII 1. Introduction In In Re Suspension of Attorneys Who Failed to Pay 2026 Annual...
Amendment 80 Authorizes Statutory Interlocutory Appeals: The State May Appeal Juvenile-Transfer Orders (Overruling State v. A.G.) 1. Introduction In State of Arkansas v. Minor Child, 2026 Ark. 66,...
General Verdict Unanimity Not Required as to Alternative Capital-Murder Theories or “Cruel or Depraved” Subdefinitions in Arkansas Postconviction Review I. Introduction In Zachary Holly v. State of...
State Agencies Are Not “Persons” for § 1983, § 1981, or ACRA Claims; Title VII Claims May Proceed Against the Agency Arkansas Highway Police, a Division of the Arkansas State Highway and...
Curative Clarifications for Inadvertent Jail References and Deference to Demeanor-Based Batson Rulings in Arkansas I. Introduction In Elijah Singleton v. State of Arkansas, 2026 Ark. 61, the Arkansas...
Conditional-Use Permit Denials by County Quorum Courts Are Quasi-Judicial and Require De Novo Circuit-Court Review I. Introduction In MMSC, LLC, F/K/A MMSW, LLC v. WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS; QUORUM...
Substantial Compliance with Rule 3(e)(vi) and Equitable Estoppel Bars a Mortgagee from Reasserting Lien Priority After Its Agent Promised Release Case: Relyance Bank, N.A. v. Steve Pharr and Simmons...