Supreme Court of Arkansas
In re Amends. to the Ark. R. Civ. P.
March 13, 20142014 Ark. 119
Summary
The Supreme Court of Arkansas adopted amendments to multiple civil, appellate, district-court, and administrative rules, effective July 1, 2014. The amendments clarify service deadlines and extensions, expand permissive interlocutory appeals involving privileged discovery, revise district-court appeal procedures, and make various filing, confidentiality, briefing, and probate-form changes. The court also rejected the limitation that a subsequent service extension must be sought within the original 120-day period.