Supreme Court

The Arkansas Supreme Court released opinions Thursday. The court’s ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, orders and submissions, can be found on the Internet at courts.state.ar.us.

PROCEEDINGS OF APRIL 18, 2013

CHIEF JUSTICE JIM HANNAH 12-540. First Arkansas Bank &

Trust, Trustee; First Arkansas

Bank & Trust; Bank of England;

Merchants and Planters Bank;

The Capital Bank; Heber Springs

State Bank; Timberland Bank;

Arkansas Bankers’ Bank; and M&P

Community Bancshares, Inc. v. Gill

Elrod Ragon Owen & Sherman,

P.A.; Christopher L. Travis, P.A.;

Dream Team Holdings 1, LLC; and

Fayetteville Municipal Property

Owners’ Improvement District No.

12 - Belclaire, from Pulaski Circuit,

Fifth Division. Affirmed in part;

reversed and remanded in part.

Baker and Hart, JJ., dissent.

12-959. Elmer Graham, individually,

and in his official capacity v. Iris

Cawthorn, from Prairie Circuit,

Northern District. Reversed and

remanded.

JUSTICE DONALD L. CORBIN 12-958. Roger McLemore, Charles

McLemore, and Mike Hall,

individually, and on behalf of a

class consisting of members of the

Arkansas State Police Retirement

System v. Richard Weiss, Director,

Arkansas Department of Finance

and Administration; J.R. Howard,

Director, Department of Arkansas

State Police; Gail H. Stone,

Executive Secretary, Arkansas

State Police Retirement System;

John W. Allison, Kirk Bradshaw,

Joe Miles, Brant Tosh, Donnie

Underwood, Blake Wilson and

John Shelnutt, Trustees, Arkansas

State Police Retirement System,

from Pulaski Circuit, 16th Division.

Affirmed. Goodson, J., not

participating.

JUSTICE PAUL E. DANIELSON CR12-288. Rodney Arlen Pankau v.

State, from Washington Circuit.

Affirmed. Hart, J., concurs.

CR12-554. Joseph Anthony Scamardo

Jr. v. State, from Sebastian Circuit,

Fort Smith District. Reversed

and remanded; Court of Appeals’

opinion vacated. Special Justice

Byron Freeland joins in this opinion.

Hoofman, J., not participating.

JUSTICE KAREN R. BAKER CR12-861. State v. Steven Carl

Williams, from Benton Circuit.

Appeal dismissed.

Northwest Arkansas, Pages 10 on 04/19/2013

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