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Advance sheets began again August 29, 2014

8/29/2014

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The Arkansas Court of Appeals issued its first decisions after the summer break on Wednesday, August 27, 2014. There were 10 decisions.

Where the decisions significant? Well they certainly were to the parties. Some of the members of our group have discussed what constitutes a significant case. Before 2007, the court could designate a case for publication or, not for publication. If the case was designated is not for publication it could not be used as legal authority. There was a certain amount of opposition to this practice. For that reason the Arkansas appellate courts system no longer issues unpublished decisions. All decisions are published on its website and given a unique identifier so that they may be referred to and cited for any legal propositions found in the case.

That does not mean that every single case will be significant. There will be cases that simply repeat or apply the findings and conclusions of previous cases. Nevertheless, as lawyers we like to keep up with what the courts are doing so that we can follow trends and try to anticipate what will be happening next.

Two of our members, Robert Tschiemer and Gerry Schulze, recently spoke at a continuing legal education program for the Arkansas Bar Association. Our task was to select the most significant cases of the last year and talk about how they would impact the law and the legal system. We feel like the presentation was a success.

As the courts return to publishing decisions, we recommend that lawyers keep up to date with the changes in the law. We believe that our weekly sessions are beneficial to lawyers trying to keep up with the times. As always we are looking for additional legal professionals with different points of view to join our group and meet with us.
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Arkansas Chief Justice Jim Hannah Named President of National Court Association!

8/13/2014

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The Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court has been named chair of the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts and president of the Conference of Chief Justices.  This is a huge honor for the State of Arkansas.  

For more please see this News Release.

We congratulate Chief Justice Hannah on this appointment, and we are confident that he will make us all proud.
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    Gerry Schulze is a lawyer in Little Rock, Arkansas and one of the members of the Arkansas Advance Sheets Study Group.  He created this webpage and blog.  We hope that in the future other members of the group will participate, but for right now, this is it.

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