Opinion ID: 2100938
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Constitutionality of Soil & Water Commission Statutes

Text: Arkansas Wildlife next argues that certain statutes under which the ASWCC proposes to transfer water from rivers of Arkansas are unconstitutional because they violate Amendment 35. Thus, it concludes that the ASWCC does not have the sole authority to enter into the Agreement with the Corps of Engineers for implementation of the Project. We need not address this issue. Arkansas Wildlife did not obtain a ruling on this issue from the circuit court. Therefore, this argument is not preserved for appeal, as this court is left without a decision of the circuit court to review on this matter. City of Barling v. Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Auth., 347 Ark. 105, 123, 60 S.W.3d 443, 454 (2001) (holding that [i]t is well settled that to preserve arguments for appeal, even constitutional ones, the appellant must obtain a ruling below.).