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Judge Tim Fox ruled eligible for election despite past law license suspension

Circuit Judge Sam Bird yesterday ruled that Circuit Judge Tim Fox is an eligible candidate for re-election. A lawsuit was filed earlier this month alleging that Fox should be disqualified because of a suspension in his law license in 2013 for failure to pay bar dues. The Arkansas Constitution requires judicial candidates to have been licensed attorneys in the state for six consecutive years prior to taking the seat (eight for Supreme Court judges). Bird ruled that an administrative suspension for late payment, unlike a punitive suspension for misconduct, would not disqualify a candidate.
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Judge Wendell Griffen: Angela Byrd's law-license suspension violated her due process rights

Here's the ruling from Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen finding that it's unconstitutional to automatically suspend the law license of an attorney (in the case for non-payment of dues) without giving a chance for the attorney to contest the suspension. Griffen declared the automatic suspensions unconstitutional on Wednesday and released his 18-page ruling yesterday.
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Statement from Rhonda Wood appears to violate judicial rules

The knocks against Court of Appeals Judge Rhonda Wood keep piling up. She's been at the vanguard of the Republican, business-lobby takeover of the non-partisan judiciary. She's played loose with the facts on contributions to her unopposed campaign for Supreme Court by the nursing home lobby. Now, after responding to questions raised by Blue Hog Report about her eligibility to run for Supreme Court, Blue Hog's Matt Campbell argues that Wood has violated judicial rules.

Lawsuit filed against Circuit Judge Tim Fox over suspended law license

Lawyer Valerie Thompson Bailey was disqualified from challenging Circuit Judge Tim Fox because of a past administrative suspension of her law license. But it turns out Fox had a suspension too, for non-payment of dues in 2013. Oops! Now a lawsuit has been filed asking that Fox be disqualified from the race. Meanwhile, Rhonda Wood, who had a brief suspension in 2008, and is running for Supreme Court, could be the next one sued. She released a statement today. Will her excuses fly?
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Here come the lawsuits on judicial candidates: suits filed against Judge H.G. Foster and Angela Byrd

Separate lawsuits have been filed against Judge H.G. Foster and Angela Byrd, asking that they be disqualified from running in next month's judicial races because of issues with past suspensions of law licenses for non-payment of bar dues. These sorts of suits were inevitable in the wake of Circuit Judge John Cole's recent ruling disqualifying lawyer Valerie Thompson Bailey from challenging Circuit Judge Tim Fox.

Blue Hog raises more questions about the suspended law licenses of judicial candidates. Next up: Judges Tim Fox and Rhonda Wood.

A recent ruling from Circuit Judge John Cole disqualified Valerie Thompson Bailey from challenging Circuit Court Judge Tim Fox. A past suspension in her law license disqualified her, Cole ruled; though it was merely an administrative suspension, "a suspension is a suspension is a suspension" Cole found. Now it turns out that...Judge Time Fox had his license suspended too. And Arkansas Appeals Court Judge Rhonda Wood too. Are they disqualified too?
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Judicial candidates may face problems with suspended law licenses

Will suspended licenses disqualify judicial candidates from running?
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