Tim S. Parker, Attorney at Law, and Ramona Wilson, Circuit Clerk and ex Officio Recorder of Carroll County, Arkansas…

Summary

The court granted certiorari and quashed the circuit judge’s standing order dissolving Carroll County’s Eastern and Western Judicial Districts. It held that the 1883 act created two judicial districts rather than two counties, was not repealed by later codification, amendment 55, or the 1997 legislation, and that only the General Assembly could establish or dissolve judicial districts. Justices Wills and Danielson concurred in part and dissented in part, disagreeing respectively with the majority’s reliance on a later statute and its decision to reach the merits after determining that certiorari was proper.