A Lonoke County circuit judge Friday declined to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the 30-day covid-19 mask policy of the Cabot Public School District, noting in her ruling that several of the parents who filed the lawsuit didn't have children enrolled in the district.
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Neither officials for the governor nor legislative leaders have an estimate of how much the state will end up paying private attorneys to represent them in the appeal of a judge's decision to temporarily block a state law banning mask mandates.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Friday that she will appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court a Pulaski County circuit judge's ruling that temporarily bars authorities from enforcing a state law banning mask mandates by most state and governmental entities, including the public schools.