Legal Opinion
Barclay v. Melton
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided December 2, 1999No. 99-376PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAY THORNTON, Justice.
The Department of Finance and stice. through its director, Dick Barclay, brings this appeal from the order of the Pulaski County Chancery Court that Act 916 of 1995, which revamped the state’s school funding formula by imposing an income-tax surcharge of ten percent on the tax liability of every individual resident of each local school district not levying a base millage of at least twenty-five mills, violates the Arkansas Constitution. Because we have determined that the act in question is violative of Article 5, section 21, of the Arkansas Constitution, we affirm the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Rad-Razorback Ltd. Partnership v. B.G. Coney Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1986
- Bendinger v. Marshalltown Trowell Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1999
- Matthews v. ByrdSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1933
- Carson v. WeissSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1998
- Hickey v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1914
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