Kimbrell v. McCleskey

GEORGE D. ELLIS, Special Justice,

dissenting.

I join the dissent of the Chief Justice and Justice Brown. The majority opinion takes us back to the days before the Du-Pree and Lake View decisions. It is as if the majority has entered a time machine. Under the majority opinion, we will again have a wealth-driven system of public education which was 'precisely the problem with our system in the first place.

The majority ignores the obvious. The Chief Justice quite accurately cites Snowden v. JRE Invs., Inc., 2010 Ark. 276, at 15, 370 S.W.3d 215, 223 (citing Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Heath, 254 Ark.…