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Hurst was born in Hot Springs, a resort city in central Arkansas, to Q. Byrum Hurst Sr., and the former and Hazel Earline Barham. Hurst Sr. was elected administrative judge in Garland County in 1947 [ 4 ] and then elected to the Arkansas State Senate , in which he served for twenty-two consecutive years until he ran unsuccessfully in the 1972 ...
Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm while she was the first lady of Arkansas. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Bill Clinton's Republican opponent in his 1986 gubernatorial reelection campaign accused the Clintons of conflict of interest because Rose Law did state business; the Clintons countered the charge by saying that state fees were ...
Rose Law Firm is an American law firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. It dates its origins to November 1, 1820, sixteen years before Arkansas statehood, when Robert Crittenden , born 1797, and Chester Ashley , born 1791, entered into an agreement for a "Partnership in the Practice of Law".
The firm represents the state of Arkansas in litigation against the e-commerce app Temu. [18] The lawsuit claims that the app’s Chinese-owned parent company PDD Holdings operates in violation of the state’s deceptive trade practices law by overriding the privacy settings of users’ phones and collecting more data than is necessary. [19]
The Superior Court of the Arkansas Territory was established in 1819. It consisted of three judges, and then four from 1828. It was the highest court in the territory, and was succeeded the Supreme Court, [ 1 ] established by Article Five of the 1836 Constitution, which was composed of three judges, to include a chief justice, elected to eight ...
Blueford v. Arkansas, 566 U.S. 599 (2012), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that clarified the limits of the Double Jeopardy Clause.The Supreme Court held that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar retrial of counts that a jury had previously unanimously voted to acquit on, when a mistrial is declared after the jury deadlocked on a lesser included offense.
Hutto v. Finney, 437 U.S. 678 (1978), is a landmark Supreme Court case against the Arkansas Department of Correction.The litigation lasted almost a decade, from 1969 through 1978.
While at the Arkansas Supreme Court, Brown wrote 1,220 majority opinions. Among his most significant opinions are those striking down term limits for United States Senators and Representatives, U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Hill, 316 Ark. 251, 872 S.W.2d 349 (1994), which was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in 1995, [3] and his 2002 opinion holding public school funding for the State ...