Curry v. Franklin Electric

In Holiday Inn and U.S. Fire Insurance Company v. Coleman, 29 Ark. App. 157, 778 S.W.2d 649 (1989), we permitted a number of organizations to file amicus curiae briefs in a workers’ compensation case. In doing so we followed the policy announced by the Arkansas Supreme Court in Ferguson v. Brick, 279 Ark. 168, 649 S.W.2d 397 (1983), i.e., that permission to file an amicus brief will be denied when the purpose is nothing more than to make a political endorsement of the basic brief and it is obvious that the moving party will discuss nothing of legal significance.

It is clear that we are now…