http://www.yourstreet.com/news/arkansas-supreme-court YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us Mara Leveritt's complaint about sealing of Supreme Court records in the West Memphis Three case by the court's clerk (rather than by order of any court) got attention from the Arkansas Supreme Court yesterday. In a curious decision, it punted. Rather than telling its... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734691/open-the-records Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:15:08 -0700 There is this news from the Arkansas Supreme Court . Gov. Mike Beebe has announced he's been informed by Justice Annabelle Imber that she plans to retire Jan. 1 with a year remaining on her term. Beebe will then appoint someone to complete her term. The job will be... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6710491/supreme-court-opening Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:11:08 -0700 Justice Annabelle Clinton Imber will retire from the Arkansas Supreme Court at the start of the new year, Gov. Beebe's office announced Thursday. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6709959/justice-imber-to-retire Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:39:08 -0700 The Arkansas Supreme Court resumed issuing opinions today after its summer recess, mostly housekeeping-type orders. The Court refused the state's request for a rehearing in the case of Kenneth Ray Osburn, whose murder conviction in the 2006 strangulation... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6710492/the-supremes-are-back Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:38:08 -0700 A Pulaski County Circuit judge ruled Tuesday that he doesn't have the authority to force Gov. Mike Beebe to certify an Altus man as the mayor of the northwest Arkansas town, a decision that sets up 61-year-old Gary Zolliecoffer for his third Arkansas Supreme Court... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6671362/judge-court-can-t-force-beebe-to-certify-mayor Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:07:08 -0700 Parents of students who attended a former Fourche Valley school are taking their plea to reopen the school to the Arkansas Supreme Court. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6541547/school-closure-taken-to-high-court Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:29:08 -0700 Appeals Court Judge Karen Baker says she’s running for a spot on the Arkansas Supreme Court next year. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6364420/appeals-court-judge-to-run-for-ark-supreme-court Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:42:08 -0700 State utility regulators Wednesday asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to review the reversal of their approval of Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s coal-fired John W. Turk Jr. power plant. -- http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6308029/regulators-appeal-plant-ruling Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:56:08 -0700 Judge Andree Layton Roaf, the first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, died after losing consciousness in her Little Rock office. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6272279/ex-ark-sup-ct-judge,-muskegon-hgts-native-dies Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:45:08 -0700 ►ROAF, Andree Layton Roaf - In Little Rock, Wednesday, at 68. The first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, Judge Roaf most recently was the head of the federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6265294/in-brief Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:41:08 -0700 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Judge Andree Layton Roaf, the first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, has died after losing consciousness in her Little Rock office. She was 68.Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper says Roaf died Wednesday at the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6258057/judge-andree-layton-roaf,-first-black-woman-on-arkansas-supreme-court,-dead Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:33:46 -0700 Andree Layton Roaf had some important firsts attached to her career: the first black woman to sit on the Arkansas Supreme Court and then the Arkansas Court of Appeals. -- http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6255724/1st-black-woman-on-state-s-highest-courts-dies Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:11:08 -0700 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Judge Andree Layton Roaf, the first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, died Wednesday after losing consciousness in her Little Rock office. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6252834/former-arkansas-supreme-court-judge-dies-at-68 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:21:08 -0700 LITTLE ROCK — Judge Andree Layton Roaf, the first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, died Wednesday after losing consciousness in her Little Rock office. She was 68. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6255464/former-arkansas-supreme-court-judge-dies-at-68 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:01:08 -0700 Judge Andree Roaf , who'd served by appointment to the Arkansas Supreme Court (the first black woman to be a justice) and then served a decade as a judge on the Arkanas Court of Appeals, died today after losing consciousness in her Little Rock office. She was 68... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6252117/judge-roaf-dies-at-68 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:34:08 -0700 Judge Andree Layton Roaf, the first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, died Wednesday after losing consciousness in her Little Rock office. She was 68. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6252052/former-arkansas-supreme-court-judge-dies-at-68 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:30:08 -0700 An effort to shift criminal case assignments away from embattled Pulaski County Circuit Judge Willard Proctor Jr.’s court before the end of the year failed Thursday, when only five of his 16 fellow 6th Judicial District circuit judges endorsed a recommendation that... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6215339/bid-fails-to-give-proctor-docket-of-only-civil-cases Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:26:08 -0700 A man sentenced to life in prison for capital murder for the slaying of a 17-year-old Watson Chapel girl will get a new trial after the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed his conviction Thursday in a split decision. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6214851/court-orders-new-trial-in-06-slaying-of-teen Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:03:08 -0700 It's been a busy afternoon of late filings by the Arkansas Supreme Court in addition to their Thursday morning opinion release. Here's another. The court has dismissed a capital murder charge against Glen Homer Shelton Jr . in Jefferson County. He ran over Melanie... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6210950/murder-charge-dismissed Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:05:08 -0700 The Arkansas Supreme Court today remanded the state Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission's recommendation that Circuit Judge L. T. Simes be removed from the bench. He was found in violation of ethics rules , including by practicing law while on the bench.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6210952/judge-simes-gets-reprieve Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:51:08 -0700