A bill to shift Arkansas policy on solar power appeared headed toward legislative victory last week after some compromises and a heated committee hearing.
Lawyer sues state court officials for loss of contract that he ties to criticism of state legislator
FILES LAWSUIT: Over the loss of his work for the administrative office of the courts.
Casey Copeland, a Prairie Grove lawyer, has filed a federal lawsuit against two officials of the state Supreme Court’s administrative office of the courts for terminating his contract to represent children in dependency-neglect cases.
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He alleges he lost the work shortly after he’d written
state Rep. Charlene Fite, the Van Buren Republican, privately to object to her sponsorship of legislation to prohibit health care for transgender children. Fite is Copeland’s state representative.