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   State Courts - Arkansas - April 26, 2006

  
Cloudy's Trucking, LLC v. Cleary, CA 05-1195, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION TWO, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: There was substantial evidence that workers' compensation claimant was permanently and totally disabled under Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-519(e)(1) as (1) one doctor stated that claimant's condition would prohibit him from returning to substantial work of any kind; and (2) a vocational specialist documented that his returning to work would be difficult.

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Farler v. City of Cabot , CA05-1212, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Workers' compensation benefits were denied because an employee failed to prove the compensability of his claim under Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-102(4)(B)(iii) (Supp. 2003) since an exception to the "going and coming rule" did not apply simply based on the use of a company vehicle and the fact that the employee was on call the night before.

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Holland v. Helena Reg'l Med. Ctr., CA05-1095, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION FOUR, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Workers' compensation commission properly held that employee failed to prove by a preponderance of evidence that she had sustained compensable injury pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-102(4)(A) where her physician attributed her injury to years of deterioration and employee herself never claimed injury as compensable until months after her surgery.

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Luginbill v. Luginbill, CA05-971, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION THREE, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Trial court properly exercised jurisdiction over parties' custody/visitation matters under Ark. Code Ann. §§ 9-19-201(a)(3) and 9-19-206(b) of UCCJEA, even though father lived in Oklahoma and mother moved to Tennessee where she sought to enroll Arkansas divorce decree, because Tennessee declined jurisdiction after finding Arkansas was proper forum.

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Mizell v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs., CA05-1085, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION TWO, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Under Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-341, termination of mother's parental rights was affirmed because (1) children were neglected due to mother's drug addiction; (2) mother clearly failed to remedy the conditions that caused children's removal and had manifested the incapacity or indifference to do so; and (3) children had adjusted well to foster family.

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Nelson v. Harding, CA05-1143, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION TWO, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: In negligence suit claiming substance sprayed on dirt driveway was slick and caused vehicle to lose control on road, court did not err in granting summary judgment to driveway owner, but erred in granting summary judgment to contractor; reasonable minds could have differed about causal connection between contractor's alleged negligence and damages.

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Porter v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs., CA05-456, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION TWO, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Under Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-341(b)(3), termination of father's parental rights to his child was affirmed because trial court found that 1) father failed to finish court-ordered drug counseling; 2) there were irregularities with his drug screens; 3) he tested positive for cocaine; and 4) he had been unable to maintain a job for more than six months.

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Powell v. State, CACR05-724, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION TWO, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Although it was true that no written statement of the conditions of her probation was admitted at trial, defendant had been served with a list of conditions in the petition to revoke, was present at the hearing, and, during her testimony, displayed familiarity with her probation obligations. Thus, trial court did not err in revoking her probation.

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Rhoden v. State, CACR05-1108, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION TWO, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction of terroristic threatening under Ark. Code Ann. § 5-13-301 (1997) where a jury could infer that defendant made his threats to kill the victim and her mother with the conscious object to frighten the victim.

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Robertson v. Porter, CA 05-975, COURT OF APPEALS OF ARKANSAS, DIVISION TWO, April 26, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Ark. R. Civ. P. 59 purported to excuse driver from having to file motion for new trial to preserve issue for appeal. Jury reasonably could have found that driver's injuries were not caused by the negligence of appellees, truck operator and his employer; jury accepted appellees' theory that driver's injuries preexisted accident that involved them.

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