Boyd v. Story

Appellants petition this Court for writ of certiorari and request that this Court stay the election proceedings at issue, which are scheduled to take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2002. Appellants filed this petition on Wednesday, September 11, 2002. We deny appellants’ petition and motion to stay.

Our denial is based upon the settled rule that the courts are without authority to enjoin the holding of a regular election, regularly called. Swanberg v. Tart, 300 Ark. 304, 778 S.W.2d 931 (1989); Brown v. McDaniel, 244 Ark. 362, 427 S.W.2d 193 (1968). If a court, trial or appellate, can at the…