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This selective listing of documents available on this website regarding the following case on appeal:  
Lake View School District No. 25 of Phillips County, Arkansas, et al. (now Barton-Lexa), Appellants v. Governor Mike Huckabee, et al., Appellees, No. 01-836
is intended as a convenience to website users.  This listing will be updated periodically.

Description

Date

Opinion Masters' Reports Adopted; Mandate Issued] [PDF] 05/31/2007
Special Masters' Report [PDF] 04/26/2007
The State's Response to the Special Masters' Request for Information of April 11, 2007 04/16/2007
Masters' Request for Information 04/11/2007
Notice of Case Conference 04/03/2007
Special Masters' Interim Report 03/16/2007
Order [PDF] 02/26/2007
Joint Report of the Parties In Response to the Special Masters' Order of January 18, 2007 [PDF] 02/09/2007
Per Curiam Order Granting Motion to Defer Issuance of Mandate Pending Additional Report from the Special Masters [PDF] 11/30/2006
Special Masters' Report to Arkansas Supreme Court [PDF] 10/03/2005
Supplemental Scheduling Order 08/16/2005
Per Curiam Order Granting Masters' Request to Extend the Deadline for their Report to October 1, 2005 08/03/2005
Supplemental Scheduling Order 07/28/2005
Scheduling Order 06/29/2005
Notice of Pre-hearing Conference 06/23/2005
Opinion [Motions to Recall Mandate and Reappoint Masters] 06/09/2005
Per Curiam on Motions to Recall Mandate, Reappoint Masters, and to Order State Defendant to Show Cause by Rogers School District No. 30 05/05/2005
Supplemental Opinion 06/18/2004
Order permitting briefs and requests for oral argument 04/29/2004
Order Permitting Objections [to Masters' Report] 04/02/2004
Special Masters' Report to Arkansas Supreme Court [PDF] 04/02/2004
Supplemental Scheduling Order 02/24/2004
Statement of the Supreme Court Regarding Masters  02/04/2004
Press Release [Regarding Swearing-In of Masters) 02/03/2004
Order Appointing Masters 02/03/2004
Mandate Recalled; Master To Be Appointed 01/22/2004
Opinion [Motion for Award of Costs Denied] 12/19/2002
Opinion [State failed in its constitutional duty to provide general, suitable, & efficient school-funding system; State's school- fuinding formula fostered discrimination based on wealth; State failed to justify under rational-basis standard; trial court did not err in finding that school-funding system violated equal-protection sections of Arkansas Constitution; legislation providing for excess debt service millage clearly contrary to plain meaning of Ark. Const. amend 74; Ark. Code Ann. § 26-80-204(18)(C) violated Ark. Const. amend. 74; void & of no effect; 1994 order was not law of case; award of attorney's fees modified where trial court abused discretion in basing award on percentage of $130 million & use of multipliers] 11/21/2002
Opinion (per curiam) [Motion for Extension of Time to Prepare New Abstract and For Other Relief granted; Motion for Sanctions and Summary Dismissal; denied] 05/30/2002
Opinion [Compliance trial necessary; reversed & remanded; sovereign immunity; chancery court erred in refusing to consider waiver issue; chancery court's denial of attorney's fees reversed & remanded for determination of reasonable fees; State liable.] 03/02/2000

Additional information, including the text of the court docket, is available via the Arkansas Judiciary website's "Appellate Court Dockets" web page; see: http://courts.state.ar.us/dockets/ and there enter the case number -- 01-836 -- to access the appellate docket for this case. 

NOTE:  Official texts for Arkansas appellate opinions and orders that are selected for publication are available only in print format as published in Arkansas Reports/Arkansas Appellate Reports.

 

 

 

 

Latest update: 12/11/2006