Deer/mt. Judea School District, Appellant v. Thomas W. Kimbrell, Appellee; Deer/mt. Judea School District, Appellant…

Summary

The court denied the motion to dismiss the Beebe appeal, holding that the appeal was timely, and affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part the circuit court's res judicata ruling. Claims based on post-mandate adequacy reports, cost-of-living adjustments, transportation funding, and facilities funding were not precluded, while claims concerning matters that were or could have been litigated in earlier school-funding litigation were barred. The court affirmed the striking of the amended complaint and dismissed the separate Kimbrell appeal as moot. Justice Corbin, dissenting in part and concurring in part, would have dismissed the Beebe appeal as untimely but agreed that the amended-complaint ruling should be affirmed and that the Kimbrell appeal was moot.