Arkansas, April, 2006, State Case law

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State Courts - Arkansas - April 13, 2006

Ark. Bd. of Embalmers & Funeral Dirs. v. Reddick, No. 05-952, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered
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Overview: State supreme court found enough evidence in record to uphold Arkansas Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors' finding that funeral director violated rules governing funeral homes because he did not make a reasonable attempt to fulfill desires of decedent's survivors, and it affirmed Board's decision to suspend director's license for two years.

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Armstrong v. State, No. CR05-1028, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered
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Overview: Defendant's two convictions for capital murder were proper where evidence of an acrimonious divorce and evidence that defendant owed the victim, his estranged wife, back child support could have provided a motive for the killing. Therefore, the admission of that evidence was appropriate pursuant to Ark. R. Evid. 404(b).

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Crisler v. Unum Ins. Co. of Am., No. 05-919, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered
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Overview: Trial court erred in finding that decedent's death was not "accidental bodily injury" and that policy exclusion for illness or disease applied, as the statistical probability of death from anaphylactic shock resulting from an allergic reaction to an antibiotic was very low, and was an unexpected occurrence very much outside usual course of things.

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Farmers Ins. Co. v. Snowden, No. 05-527, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered
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Overview: Circuit court did not abuse its discretion when it granted the individual's motion for class certification under Ark. R. Civ. P. 23 where the certified class was susceptible to precise definition, and the requirements of commonality, predominance, and superiority were also satisfied.

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Hess v. State, No. CR 05-164, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered , April 13, 2006, Order Issued
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In re Wommack , No. 06-356, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered
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Jackson v. State, No. CR 06-151, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered , April 13, 2006, Order Issued
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Overview: Appellate court dismissed an inmate's appeal from the trial court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus as the inmate did not direct the writ to the person in whose custody the inmate had been detained as required by Ark. Code Ann. ? 16-112-105.

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Johnson v. Burnett, No. CR 06-239, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered , April 13, 2006, Order Issued
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Overview: Appellate court denied an inmate's petition for a writ of mandamus to correct a sentence imposed after the trial court granted the inmate's petition for postconviction relief because it was clear that mandamus was not the proper remedy to raise the question in the appellate court.

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Lee v. State, CR 99-1116, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered
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McLane Southern, Inc. v. Davis, No. 05-990, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS, April 13, 2006, Opinion Delivered
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Overview: The Arkansas Unfair Cigarette Sales Act, Ark. Code. Ann. ? 4-75-701 et seq. (2005), as amended by Act No. 627, Ark. Acts 2003, was not unconstitutional under the due-process provisions of Ark. Const. art. 2, ? 8 and the Fourteenth Amendment, as a rational basis existed for each of the amendments.

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