Court Opinion

ID: 9758099
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 23:11:28.975345+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:47.011494
License: Public Domain

Ray Thornton, Justice, dissenting. For the reasons arstimy ce, in American Abstract & Title Co. v. Rice, 358 Ark. 1, 186 S.W.3d 705 (2004), I respectfully dissent. Specifically, I would affirm the trial court’s order in which it concluded that it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to consider issues stemming from an allegation of the unauthorized practice of law. Because such issues must be considered by our Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, I would conclude that the trial court properly granted appellees’ motion to dismiss. I respectfully dissent. Joe Woodson, Jr.; Whetstone Law Firm by: Bud Whetstone, and Herbert T. Schwartz, for appellant. Gill, Elrod, Ragon, Owen & Sherman, P.A., by: Marie B. Miller, for appellee Stewart Title Guaranty Company, Inc. Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow, P.L.L.C., by: E.B. Chiles, IV; and Bryan Cave L.L.P. by: Charles A. Newman and Kathy A. Wisniewski, for appellee First American Title Insurance Company, Inc. Rose Law Firm, by: GarlandJ. Garrett and Michael N. Shannon for appellee Chicago Title Insurance Company, Inc.