Court Opinion

ID: 9759991
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:37:31.883605+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:07.301566
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Darrell Hickman, Justice, dissenting. The majority has again upheld this piece of special legislation which has no purpose except to deny certain litigants the same due process of law that others enjoy. Furthermore, it flies in the face of legislation which gives this court permission to enact rules of civil procedure for all courts. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 22-245 (Supp. 1983). (I think we needed no such permission.) There cannot be two bodies: one trying to promulgate rules for all, the other for a special few. I adhere to my views expressed in Simpson v. Fuller, 281 Ark. 471, 665 S.W.2d 269 (1984); and Gay v. Rabon, 280 Ark. 5, 652 S.W.2d 836 (1983). Purtle and Hollingsworth, JJ., join in this dissent.