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Volume 64 Number 3

Articles

Brady-based Prosecutorial Misconduct Claims, Buckley, and the Arkansas Coram Nobis Remedy

J. Thomas Sullivan

Rescuing Expedited Discovery from Courts & Returning It to FRCP 26(d)(1): Using a Doctrine’s Forgotten History to Achieve Legitimacy

Jesse N. Panoff

Essay

The Not-So-Standard Visitation Order and a Proposal for Reform

Brian Meadors

Comments

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure: An Evaluation of Arkansas’s Drug Courts

Max Deitchler

Intentional Interference with an Expected Inheritance: The Only Valid Expectancy for Arkansas Heirs is to Expect Nothing

Rachel A. Orr

Case Notes

Stills v. Stills: A Perplexing Response to the Effect of Relocation on Child Custody

Jarica L. Hudspeth

Private Pipeline, Public Use?: Linder v. Arkansas Midstream Gas Services Corp., Smith v. Arkansas Midstream Gas Services Corp., and Arkansas’s Eminent Domain Jurisprudence

Malcom N. Means

Recent Developments

Rachel A. Orr

VOLUME 64 NUMBER 2

Articles

Civil Conspiracy and the Rule of Law: A Proposal for Reappraisal and Reform

Norman L. Greene

Comments

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Matrimony: The Constitutional Implications of Arkansas’s “Amendment Concerning Marriage”

Jennifer Lynn Carleton

Disqualification of Atheists: Punishment for Nonbelievers in Arkansas

Seth R. Jewell

  A Primer on Arkansas Construction Lien Laws and a Call for Action to Better Protect Homeowners

Josh Rohe

  Economic Loss Rule in Arkansas: Everyone Else Has It, Why Don’t We?

Glenn S. Ritter

Case Notes

Pretext, Traffic Stops, Arrests, and Hinojosa v. State: Does Arkansas Law Provide Challenges to Traffic Stops and Arrests Not Present Under Federal Law?

Elizabeth Calhoun Pearce

Standing in Arkansas Courts: Chubb Holds That Standing Is Not a Component of Subject Matter Jurisdiction

Meredith Hoberock

Marching to Service

Brian Johnston

Recent Developments

Garrett O’Brien

VOLUME 64 NUMBER 1

Symposium Issue

Hartman Hotz Lecture

Constitutionalizing Judicial Ethics: Judicial Elections After Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, Caperton, and Citizens United

Ronald D. Rotunda

Essays

Selection of Judges

Robert L. Brown

Judicial Elections, Campaigning, and the First Amendment: Looking Past the Hype and Hysteria to Democracy

Wendell Griffen

ELECTIONES REGNAT

Timothy Davis Fox

Campaign Contibutions, Campaign Involvement, and Judicial Recusal

Howard W. Brill

Caperton, Due Process, and Judicial Duty: Recusal Oversight in Patrons’ Cases

Steve Sheppard

Articles

Who Do They Think They Are?

Donald P. Judges

Rethinking “Bias”: Judicial Elections and the Due Process Clause After Capterton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.

Eric Sandberg-Zakian

Judicial Selection from a Political Science Perspective

Anthony Champagne

The Curious Logic of Judicial Elections

Rachel Paine Caufield

Recent Developments

Garrett O’Brien

 

VOLUME 63 NUMBER 4

Articles

John Doe Is Alive and Well: Designing Pseudonym Use in American Courts 

Donald P. Balla

Essay

Litigation Tactics Addressing Changes to Deposition Testimony Through Rule 30(e) Errata Sheet Corrections

Ilya A. Lipin  

Comments

Signed, Sealed, Delivered . . . Unconstitutional: The Effect of Melendez-Diaz on the Use of Notarized Crime Laboratory Reports in Arkansas

Jacqueline Forsgren Cronhite

The Loss of Chance Doctrine in Arkansas and the Door Left Open: Revisiting Holt ex. rel. Holt v. Wagner 

Chris M. Warzecha

The Fayetteville Shale Play and the Need to Rethink Environmental Regulation of Oil and Gas Development in Arkansas

Adam J. Bailey

Poultry Growers in Arkansas: Agents or Independent Contractors?

Kristy E. Boehler

Case Note

An Uncomplicated Process? The Deficiencies of Arkansas’s Venue Scheme as Demonstrated by Dotson v. City of Lowell

Lauren Oswalt Baber

Legislative Note

Act 408: Arkansas’s New Legislation for Merging and Converting Business Entities

Brandon J. Tittle

Recent Developments

Garrett O’Brien

 

VOLUME 63 NUMBER 3

The Hartman Hotz Lecture  

Remarks to the H.L.A. Hart Society 

 Philip S. Anderson

 Articles   

 The Analytic Protocol for the Duty of Loyalty Under the Prototype LLC Act 

 Thomas E. Rutledge & Thomas Earl Geu

Better Disabled than Devout? Why Title VII Has Failed to Provide Adequate Accommodations Against Workplace Religious Discrimination 

 Keith S. Blair

 Comments

 Conditional Guilty Pleas in Arkansas: An Assessment and a Plea for Change 

 Clark J. Brown

One-Stop Certification: The Turk Plant and Understanding Arkansas’s Major Utility Facility Siting Certification Process 

Garrett O’Brien

Bound by Precedent: Arkansas Practitioners Win the Debate over Unpublished Decisions 

 Jillian R. Jones

  Case Note

McGhee v. Arkansas State Board of Collection Agencies: Arkansas Shows Predatory Lenders the Door  

Adam L. Bodeker

Recent Developments    

Garrett O’Brien

VOLUME 63 NUMBER 2

Hartman Hotz Lecture

What Is “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”? Taking the Long View

Hiroshi Motomura

Article

The Low-Profit LLC (L3C): Program Related Investment by Proxy or Perversion?

Carter G. Bishop

Essay

When Did Shoplifting a Can of Tuna Become a Felony? A Critical Examination of Arkansas’s Breaking or Entering Statute

David A. Bailey

Comments

Justice Reformed: Johnson v. Rockwell Automation, Inc., Torts, and the Separation of Powers in Arkansas

Ryan Culpepper

Maintaining Diversity After Parents Involved: Supreme Court Precedent Renders Arkansas’s School Choice Statute Unconstitutional, and the State Should Respond by Abolishing School Choice

Haley Heath

Ensuring Reciprocity: Why Arkansas Should Take Steps to Comply with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

Kristi L. Hunter

Toxic Exposure in Arkansas: The “Chicken” Littered Case of Green v. Alpharma, Inc.

Baxter D. Drennon

Case Note

Statutory Misconception: The Arkansas Supreme Court’s Method in Finley v. Astrue Sets New Precedent for Uncertainty

Buckley W. Bridges

Recent Developments

Michael A. Thompson

 

VOLUME 63 NUMBER 1

Symposium Issue

Arkansas Initiated Act 1 of 2008

Symposium Articles

Adoption, Best Interests, and the Arkansas Constitution

Mark Strasser

Comparative Perspectives on Adoption of Children by Cohabiting, Nonmarital Couples and Partners

Lynn D. Wardle

Arkansas’s  Unmarried Couple Adoption Ban: Depriving Children of Families

Catherine L. Hartz

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Comments

Confusing Plain Language: The Compelling but Counterintuitive Need for Adoption by a Biological Parent

Ashley L. Driver

Legislative Note

The U-visa: Immigration Law’s Best Kept Secret?

Anna Hanson

Recent Developments

Michael A. Thompson

VOLUME 62 NUMBER 4

Articles

Tebow Drops Back to Pass: Videogames Have Crossed the Line, But Does the Right of Publicity Protect a Student-Athlete’s Likeness When Balanced Against the First Amendment?

Christian Dennie

The Arkansas Approach to Competency to Stand Trial: “Nailing Jelly To A Tree”

J.W. Looney

Essay

The Lawyer as Professional Writer

Brandon J. Harrison

Comments

Make Way: Why Arkansas and the States Should Narrow Health Care Peer Review Privileges for the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005

Eric Scott Bell

Suspended on Saturday? The Constitutionality of the Cyberbullying Act of 2007

Leah M. Ward

Case Notes

Guilty Pleas as Civil Precedent: The Need for a Fact-Based Plea Colloquy After Bradley Ventures, Inc. v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.

Charles Lyford

Every Attorney Deserves a Second Chance: Consideration of Issues Not Raised at the Trial Court Level in Jones v. Flowers

Clark A. Donat

Legislative Notes

A Tenant’s Dilemma: The Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007

Ashley E. Norman

Skimming the Surface: Arkansas Act 507’s Attempt to Limit Compensation for Spill Damages

Toni B. Smith

Recent Developments

Michael A. Thompson

Volume 62  Number 3

Article

Three’s Company: Stone v. Ritter and the Improper Characterization of Good Faith in the Fiduciary Duty “Triad”

Andrew D. Appleby & Matthew D. Montaigne

Essay

Step Out of the Car: License, Registration, and DNA Please

Brian Gallini

Comment

Lock ‘Em Up and Throw Away the Key: “The West Memphis Three” and Arkansas’s Statute for Post-Conviction Relief Based on New Scientific Evidence

David S. Mitchell, Jr.

Case Notes

“Blazing a New Trail”: The Effect of Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Co. v. Alan Curtis Enterprises, Inc. on the American Rule and an Insurer’s Right to Attorneys’ Fees

William F. Clark

An Uncertain Duty: K.C. Properties, Inc. v. Lowell Investment Partners, LLC and the Duty of Loyalty in an Arkansas Limited Liability Company

Michael A. Thompson

Phavixay v. State: Uncertainty in the Admissibility of Other Act Evidence and a Misapplication of the Abuse-of-Discretion Standard of Review

Nicholas M. Churchill

Legislative Note

Mineral Rights? The Constitutional Deficiency of Section 26-37-314 of the Arkansas Code

Drew T. Sadler

Recent Developments

Michael A. Thompson

Volume 62Number 2

Transfer as an Accommodation: Standards from Discrimination Cases and Theory

Stacy M. Hickox

Not Taking Frivolity Lightly: Circuit Court Variance in Determining Frivolous Appeals Under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38

Meehan Rasch

Reviving the Privilege Doctrine: The Appealability of Order Compelling the Production of Privileged Information

Samantha Blassingame Leflar

Baseball’s Growth Problem: Can Congress Require Major League Baseball to Test Its Athletes For Human Growth Hormone?  A Proposal

Holli N. Heiles

Agree to Disagree: The Inequity of Arkansas’s Tacit-Agreement Test As Seen in Deck House, Inc. v. Link

Phillip M. Brick, Jr.

Against the Grain: The Arkansas Supreme Court Resists The Judicial Movement to Enforce Mandatory Arbitration Provisions in Employment Contracts in Arkansas Diagnostic Center, P.A. v. Tahiri

John F. Grifee