Elliott v. Boone County Independent Living, Inc.

A good law is one that holds, whether you recognize it or not; a had law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it. — John Ruskin

Today a majority of our Court has decided to disregard a good law, yet ordain one that stands 140 years of Arkansas precedent on its head; one that contravenes the overwhelming body of American jurisprudence regarding the shifting of attorney’s fees, overrules a decision of this very court in a case direcdy on point, ignores an eighty-year-old decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court, and cannot be rationally justified alongside the rest of Arkansas law on…