Arkansas Department of Correction v. Williams

JIM GUNTER, Justice.

|[The Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of Williams, which effectively stayed Williams’s execution, and the denial of its own motion for summary judgment. ADC asks this court to hold that Act 1296, passed April 9, 2009, has rendered Williams’s action moot, and to therefore dismiss the suit and lift the injunction on Williams’s execution. In the alternative, ADC asks this court to reverse the trial court’s decision on the merits because (1) ADC has sovereign immunity, and (2) the administrative directive in question is…