Arkansas Advocate: Supreme Court chief justice digs up predecessor’s 2017 memo in dispute with colleagues
Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker cited a non-official memo from her predecessor as the basis for her administrative authority in a mass email sent to judicial employees
Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice speaks out on controversial firings on first week in office
Drama continues to unfold at the Arkansas Supreme Court as several employees faced the decision of coming to work or not Monday after being notified of their termination and an order to the contrary.
State Supreme Court staffers targeted in Chief Justice Karen Baker’s firing memo last week return to work Monday
A swath of court staffers whose employment status was the subject of dispute among Arkansas Supreme Court justices late last week returned to work on Monday.
State Supreme Court majority voids chief justice’s appointments to judicial discipline panel
Certain members of the court took issue with the chief justice's appointments to the Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission.
Arkansas Advocate: High court spells out appointment authority for judicial discipline commission
Only the full Arkansas Supreme Court can appoint members to the state’s judicial disciplinary commission, according to an opinion issued Monday
Karen Baker sworn in Arkansas’ first female chief justice
Karen Baker, Arkansas' new Supreme Court chief justice, was sworn in on Wednesday in the courtroom of the Van Buren County Courthouse in Clinton -- the same courtroom where, in 1987, she argued her first case as an attorney.
Arkansas Supreme Court chief justice digs up predecessor’s 2017 memo in dispute with colleagues
Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker cited a non-official memo from her predecessor as the basis for her administrative authority in a mass email sent to judicial employees Monday. Former Chief Justice John Dan Kemp wrote and signed a memo in February 2017,
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Mark Klappenbach appointed chief judge of Arkansas Court of Appeals
Judge Klappenbach was first elected to the Arkansas Court of Appeals in 2016 and was reelected in 2020. Prior to serving on ...
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Swearing in
Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker takes her oath of office in Clinton on Wednesday. Baker, who began her legal ...
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Klappenbach named chief judge for Arkansas Court of Appeals
Judge N. Mark Klappenbach was named Tuesday (Jan. 7) as chief judge of the Arkansas Court of Appeals. The announcement was ...
Arkansas high court spells out appointment authority for judicial discipline commission
Only the full Arkansas Supreme Court can appoint members to the state’s judicial disciplinary commission, according to an ...
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Klappenbach appointed chief judge on court of appeals
Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker has appointed Judge N. Mark Klappenbach as chief judge of the Arkansas Court ...
'Beneath the dignity of the office': State chief justice squares off against colleagues over 'retaliatory' firing of 10 court employees, including some who had complaints ...
The newly appointed chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court is embroiled in a battle of sorts with her fellow justices ...