LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A disciplinary panel dismissed ethics charges Friday against the Arkansas Supreme Court's justices over their decision to prohibit a judge who participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration from hearing any execution-related cases.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Supreme Court justice who won re-election after conservative groups spent nearly $2.5 million trying to unseat her called the result a victory over outside groups trying to reshape state courts across the country.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Supreme Court justice won re-election Tuesday night, surviving a flurry of attack ads and mailers from a Washington-based conservative group that spent more than $1.2 million in the weeks leading up to the midterm trying to unseat her.
Arkansas voters, meanwhile, approved a constitutional amendment requiring photo identification before casting a ballot, a measure to gradually raise the state's minimum wage, and legalized casinos in four counties.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected an Arkansas Supreme Court justice's effort to halt attack ads and mailers from a Washington-based conservative group that is trying to unseat her in next week's election.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that gives the state's prison director authority to determine whether an inmate is mentally competent to be put to death, siding with two convicted murderers who were spared from execution last year.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Supreme Court justice suing to block a Washington-based group's attacks against her said Wednesday that she voted against requesting a pay raise for her and other members of the court, contrary to what the group claims in one of its mailers.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Supreme Court justice seeking re-election sued Thursday to block a Washington-based conservative group's attack ads and mailers, months after a state judge ordered several television stations to stop airing ads from another outside group targeting the justice.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A disciplinary panel filed ethics charges Thursday against a seventh member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Thursday over the court's decision to prohibit a judge who participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration from handling any execution-related cases.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A disciplinary panel filed ethics charges Thursday against six Arkansas Supreme Court justices over their decision to prohibit a judge who participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration from handling any execution-related cases.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court said Wednesday that it won't revive an Arkansas judge's lawsuit challenging his disqualification from execution cases for participating in an anti-death penalty demonstration outside the governor's mansion.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion to reconsider a three-judge panel's decision to dismiss Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen's lawsuit against the Arkansas Supreme Court justices.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A bitter and expensive fight for an Arkansas Supreme Court seat that drew more than $1 million in outside spending and a flurry of attack ads will drag on for another six months, with an incumbent justice heading into a runoff in November against an attorney backed by an out-of-state Republican group.
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An Arkansas Supreme Court justice and an attorney backed by an out-of-state Republican group are advancing to a runoff in a race for a high court seat that was marked by outside attack ads.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A race for an Arkansas Supreme Court seat that has drawn heavy spending from outside groups and a four-person race for the Democratic nomination to run for a Little Rock-area U.S. House seat headline the ballot in the state's primary and non-partisan judicial election this week.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Supreme Court justice filed a lawsuit Monday to block a conservative group's television ads targeting her re-election bid, while one of her challengers was criticized by the group in a new spot calling him soft on crime.