Nahlen v. Woods

Lyle Brown, Justice.

The appellants in this case are five officials of the city of North Little Rock: the finance director, the purchasing agent, the clerks of the municipal courts, and the dty clerk. The appellees are the members of the Pulaski County Law Library Board and of the Arkansas Bar Foundation, the latter being an intervenor. The action arose as a result of the passage by the North Little Rock Council of an ordinance prohibiting the collection of court costs imposed by two Acts of the General Assembly, Acts 685 and 284 of 1971. Those Acts imposed a tax of $1.00 to support a county…