Contempt motion filed against highway department on money spent illegally on freeway projects Plaintiffs in the successful taxpayers’ lawsuit over the Arkansas Department of Transportation’s illegal use of Amendment 91 sales tax money for the widening of Interstates 30 and 630 in Little Rock have asked the state to be held in contempt for failure to respond to an order in the case. The state did not object to nor appeal a circuit court judgment that the state had improperly used money intended solely for four-lane highways to expand existing freeways, the motion said. The order directed the state to reimburse the Amendment 91 four-lane fund with $121 million spent on the widening projects within 60 days. The state has not done so, the motion says. It has objected to attorney fees sought by the winners of the case.