LITTLE ROCK, Ark. â Attorneys representing Cherokee Nation Businesses have filed another lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the Arkansas Racing Commissionâs decision to award the Pope County gaming license to Mississippi-based Gulfside Casino Partnership.
The Feb. 16 filing alleges âerrors, arbitrary actions and legal non-complianceâ that failed to choose CNBâs application to build Legends Resort & Casino LLC.
In the filing, CNBâs attorneys ask Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen to reverse the ARCâs decision to grant the license to Gulfside. They say the CNB application is âobjectively superiorâ because it does not seek outside financing, has a shorter timeline to completion, has the endorsements of Pope County officials in office and CNB has more experience with gaming venues.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) - Allegations of negligence and reckless conduct were filed on Feb. 17 against Little Rock Ambulance Authority, doing business as Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS).
The suit was filed by plaintiffs Louis and Kristy Manees in Pulaski County Circuit Court. Louis is a former Little Rock Firefighter who was responding to an accident in February 2018 that MEMS was also at scene at, the suit says.
Louis was helping MEMS responders get a cot from the back of an ambulance. A dead cot battery was sitting on top of the cot, and fell onto Louis right hand.
By Caleb Taylor
What are the differences between state and federal constitutional law? How do lawyers use state constitutions to protect their clients? How do state laws differ from those at the federal level in protecting individual rights?
Come learn the answers to these questions and more from Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Justin Pearson in a virtual event “Our State is Freer Than Yours: How State Constitutions Protect Individual Rights on March 4th at 4 p.m. sponsored by the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, Economics Arkansas and the Institute for Justice.
Pearson was the lead attorney in a successful 2016 case that challenged a Little Rock city ordinance that required taxi cab permit applicants to “prove they would not take customers away from Little Rock’s only existing taxi company.” Pulaski County Circuit Court ruled in favor of Pearson’s client, Ken Leininger, saying that Little Rock’s city code violated the Arkansas Constitution, which p