Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Ross-Lawhon

John I. Purtle, Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment rendered by the Pulaski County Circuit Court. The judgment declared Ark. Stat. Ann. § 45-440 (Repl. 1977) to be unconstitutional and void as violative of Article 7, Sections 1, 11 and 28 of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas. This statute, as amended in 1977, makes the decisions of the juvenile referee binding upon the county judge. We agree with the appellant that the Pulaski County Circuit Court did not have jurisdiction to declare the statute unconstitutional.

We have held that there are four requisite conditions…