CFABPC Clown Crew and Boss Knight UPDATE!

March 31, 2023


Well, it seems that they are wanting to delay the lodging (filing) at the Arkansas Supreme Court for their case that has now been dismissed by TWO judges.

They want to delay that deadline until August 11.

August 11 is seven months from the date of the filing of the first Notice of Appeal.

(That’s actually only a couple of weeks longer than they would have if they filed a new Notice of Appeal on the ruling from the Honorable Latonya Honorable.)

They write that they are asking for the extension because, apparently, there is some difficulty in getting the transcripts from some of the hearings.

“Plaintiffs have not been able to obtain the transcript from the court reporter, as the court reporter who handled most of the hearings in this case was recently removed by the Court of Appeals and surrendered her license.”

(I don’t know anything about how transcriptions by court reporters work and why it requires this particular court report to make the record.)

In my opinion, this case is moot and they are going to lose.

Two separate judges, Griffen and Honorable, have dismissed this case. The Supreme Court may simply decline to hear this. If they do accept it, then I expect that they would affirm the dismissal of the case.

Potts Inn

March 31, 2023


Potts Inn is a historic former stagecoach inn at Main and Center Streets in Pottsville, Arkansas that is now a museum. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof and weatherboard siding. A two-story gabled portico projects at the center of the front, supported by square posts. Entrances on both levels have overhead transom windows. The inn was built in 1858 by Kirkbride Potts, a Pennsylvania native, and is one of the finest antebellum houses in the region.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Mount Nebo State Park Annual Chicken Fry

March 30, 2023

Mount Nebo State Park Annual Chicken Fry in Dardanelle, Arkansas, August 1959.

Dover Courthouse Razed—1917

December 11, 2022
A historical article from
The Nevada County Picayune
April 5, 1917
Russellville.—
The old Pope County courthouse at Dover was wrecked to make room for the new $9,000 brick high school building. Title to the property was perfected by a special act of the Legislature, signed by Governor Brough, and the new building will be completed during the summer. Dover was the first county seat of Pope County, and the old courthouse, a two-story brick building, erected in 1867, was the first brick building in this part of the state.1 When the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, now a part of the Iron Mountain System, was built, Russellville came into existence,2 and in 1884 the county seat was moved to Russellville,3 after a bitter contest, in which prejudices and ill feelings were engendered, which have not yet been entirely outgrown. A former county official, in office at the time the removal was voted in a special election, vowed he would never again set foot in Russellville. He has not kept his vow to the letter, but he has not broken it more than a half dozen times in more than 80 years, and then only when the most urgent reasons demanded his presence in the new county seat.
For many years Dover was the center of a large judicial district, and many important cases were tried in the old courthouse. After the removal of the county seat the building was used by the public school until its demolition to make room for a more modern and better appointed school building. There was no cornerstone to the old building, but in tearing down the walls workmen found an old calendar for 1871 behind some woodwork, which will be preserved as a relic of the olden days. The calendar was sent out by a St. Louis book and stationery concern and is in a good state of preservation.
  1. In March 1878, the courthouse at Dover was badly damaged by a storm, probably a tornado, to the point that courts could not be held in it.  “The entire west wall was blown down to the second floor, the south wall was cracked and sprung in two places from top to bottom, and the other wall to some extent injured. (August 18, 1878, Russellville Democrat)
  2. Not true.  Russellville existed long before the railroad came through.
  3. Not true. There were at least three attempts to move the county seat.  One was by legislative act in the early 1870s.  There was a vote in 1878 and another on March 17, 1887, after which the county seat was moved.

Norristown

December 10, 2022
Weekly Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, August 1, 1837, an ad describing the lost river town location of Norristown in its very earliest days

Sale Notice/Ad, Weekly Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, August 1, 1837

THE Commissioners of the county of Pope, having permanently located the Seat of Justice for said county upon a tract of land belonging to the undersigned, and the site possessing many superior advantages over any other on the Arkansas river above Little Rock, for a lone town, has induced the undersigned to lay it off in TOWN LOTS, and offer them at Public Sale, on the town site, on Tuesday, the 22d August next.
Norristown is beautifully situated on the north bank of the Arkansas river, at the point where the military road crosses it, and equidistant from Little Rock and Fort Smith. Its location was ten feet above the highest stage of the great flood in 1833. The adjacent country, on both sides of the river, is rich, and beautifully situated for extensive and valuable farms. Most of the bottom lands having been located, are already becoming thickly settled.
Norristown is the only steam-boat landing and depot for the large and flourishing settlements on the Illinois, the upper settlements of Point Remove and Little Red river; and even the settlements on White river, in Carroll and Izard counties, resort to this landing as the most convenient for their trade. And the Petit Jean settlement, on the south side of the river, which Is becoming one of the most dense in the State, does the most of its trading, and makes its depot at this point of the river.
This town site is so well known by the name of Dardanelle, (which name properly and originally belongs to the south bank alone), that the proprietor considers it needless to say anything more in relation to its peculiar advantages.
The terms will be liberal, and made known on the day of sale.
N.B.—Also, for sale, that large and commodious BUILDING, now occupied by the subscriber, together with the Kitchen, smokehouse, and other convenient out-houses, well calculated for public entertainment, which patronage has become so great, as to have induced the proprietor, of late, to enlarge and improve the premises, which is now comfortably and well fitted up for the purpose; but he, wishing to retire from the duties of such an establishment, will dispose of it at private or public sale, on the most accommodating terms. Persons desirous of keeping public house, will find, in the purchase of this, a great bargain. Among all the town lots, there cannot be a more advantageous spot than its location, being directly in front of the steam-boat and ferry landing, and near to the courthouse square.
SAMUEL NORRIS, Proprietor.
Norristown, June 24, 1837

Shiloh Reclamation Project

November 23, 2022

In the 1980s and early 1990s, part of the Shiloh area of southern Pope County area was transformed through the Shiloh Reclamation Project. Abandoned and flooded surface coal mines became valuable park and water recreational resources.

According to Wayne Van Buren, “We reclaimed the strip pits under our Abandoned Mined Lands Program. We won a national award for eliminating a dangerous highwall and backfilling extremely dangerous deep waters.”

In surface mining, the highwall is the vertical surface where the mining work was being done. At the highwall,  coal and overburden—rock and soil over the mineral being mined—are exposed.

The strip mines in the Shiloh area were  flooded when Lake Dardanelle was initially filled in the 1960s.

Wayne said, “We saved the City of Russellville a lot of money, too. Leveling the spoil piles allowed for the rapid construction of the ball fields.”

The work was recognized with a 1993 National Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation award:

The Shiloh Reclamation Project, in Russellville, Arkansas, was a joint effort by the Corps of Engineers, the City of Russellville, the Russellville Rotary Club, and the AML Fund. The project eliminated abandoned mine hazards at site that was partially flooded by the Arkansas River and frequently used as a recreation site by local residents. Major regrading and landscaping of the area with more than 2,600 trees and shrubs resulted in a high quality, hazard-free recreation center for local residents.

The AML Fund comes from the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program which uses fees paid by present-day coal mining companies to reclaim coal mines abandoned before 1977. “Abandoned mines pose risks to people and the environment. They can contaminate groundwater, emit toxic waste, and cause injury when unsteady infrastructures collapse.”

Two Russellville city parks, Shiloh Park and Pleasant View Park, provide recreational and other opportunities in the Shiloh area on and next to lands reclaimed from the abandoned surface coal mines.

Notes:

  • I don’t know if the image I used is from Shiloh.  The source image is from Conservation Practices for the Reclamation of Surface Mines in Arkansas, a 1993 paper from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), Surface Mining and Reclamation Division
  • Wayne Van Buren, was Geologist Supervisor at the ADEQ Russellville Field Office.

Judicial behavior

November 20, 2022

Judge Fox’s failure to act on a case in his docket seems to me to be judicially unethical and he should be held accountable no matter how this turns out.

It’s frustrating for all sides, I think, except for those who don’t want the casino to come to Pope County.

Whether Judge Tim Fox intended to or not, his lack of action on this appeal of a ruling by the Racing Commission has had the effect of helping the casino opponents.

Though some think otherwise, I doubt very seriously that Judge Fox has received anything from the well-heeled Choctaw-funded casino opponents for his lack of action.  I doubt that he is involved in any sort of anti-casino conspiracy.  I think he is just being recalcitrant for some reason when it comes to issues related to the casino.

And when he did rule on the original Gulfside appeal—call it Gulfside 1.0, filed in December 2019—he got it wrong, with the Supreme Court overruling his decisions twice.

With that history alone, Judge Fox should have recused himself from Gulfside 2.0, 60CV-21-1653, filed on March 9, 2021.

At this point, it really doesn’t matter which way he rules.  Whatever he rules, it’ll be appealed by the losing party.  Then the Arkansas Supreme Court can make a final decision.

Shiloh

November 19, 2022
from USGS 2014 Russellville West, AR Quadrangle map
For many, the name Shiloh brings to mind the 1862 American Civil War battle, also called the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. That battle’s name is derived from a log Methodist church called Shiloh Meeting House, around which General U.S. Grant had established forward camps in early April 1862 that Confederates under Albert Sidney Johnson,  subsequently attacked at daybreak on April 6, a Sunday.1

Shiloh, origin of the name2

  • Shiloh, Shilo, or Silo (/ˈʃaɪloʊ/; Hebrew: שִׁלוֹ ,שִׁילֹה ,שִׁלֹה, and שִׁילוֹ variably) is mainly known as the name of the biblical city which preceded Jerusalem as the central worship site of the early Israelites.
  • One bible verse, Genesis 49:10, might indicate that it was also used as the personal name of a biblical figure,  perhaps the Messiah.

Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Russellville, Arkansas3, 4, 5

In Pope County, Arkansas, the Shiloh name predates the civil war, used at least as early as the 1830s when Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (CPC), the first Presbyterian Church and the third church of any faith in Pope County.  The church was established at what was known as the Williamson camp ground.6 The camp ground was on Shiloh Creek was used for religious camp meetings.7

Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church – 1938

The church at Shiloh was formed in the early days of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church denomination—established on February 4, 1810, in Dickson County, Tennessee—and was located on or near the modern-day Faith Lutheran Church site.
Session minutes8 dated February 14, 1886 state that the first name on the church register was Margaret Hlleger in 1833.  The last meeting of the Shiloh church Session was on March 4, 1951.  In 1952, the clerk of Session reported to the General Assembly9 that Shiloh had a membership of 12, with no minister. The General Assembly declared the church inactive later that year. Many of the church members had left, many of them moving into town, some as early as the 1870s.10
Existing church records begin in 1867 and, continuing to 1952 when the church closed, reflect regular Session meetings. It was believed that the earlier books were lost in a fire either during the Civil War or in a house fire where the home of one of the elders burned. An attempt was made to reconstruct the membership list, which included surnames such as Williamson, Russell, Hamilton, Holledger, Winfield, and Harkey.
The old church building, sold by the Cumberland Presbytery in the mid-1960s, was subsequently torn down and removed.11

Church membership peaked at 95 in 1927.

John Robert Williamson12, 13, 14

Leaving Tennessee in 1830, John R Williamson and a party that included his two sons, their wives, slaves, and other families penetrated the wilderness of Arkansas by wagon train as far as what would become Yell County.  Discouraged, they turned back for Tennessee.  Stopped by snow, they camped at Point Remove where, following a Sunday service, they voted to stay in Arkansas.
Williamson and his sons received patents for nearly 2000 acres north of Russelville where they and their slaves cleared land and planted corn and cotton.
John R. Williamson was elected to the eighth session of the Arkansas Territorial Legislature in 1833 where he was elected president of the legislative council.15, 16  In that capacity, he laid the cornerstone for the Old State House.  He served on the Council until Arkansas statehood in 1836 after which he served as a state senator through 1851. Serving as president pro tempore of the Senate,  in 1846 Williamson also served as acting governor for a month during an absence of Governor Thomas Drew.
A devout Cumberland Presbyterian, Sunday services in his home and brush arbor gave way to Shiloh church and Williamson church campground on the banks of Shiloh Creek.  Williamson gave seven acres to the church and campground in 1834 and another three acres in 1858.  Williamson and his sons helped build the original 1830s log church.

Pleasant View Road crossed Illinois Bayou at Williamson Ford, probably adjacent to Williamson property.

  1. “Battle of Shiloh.” National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Accessed November 14, 2022. https://www.nps.gov/shil/learn/historyculture/shiloh-history.htm.
  2. “Shiloh.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, September 14, 2022. Accessed November 15, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiloh.
  3. “Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church Russellville, Arkansas.” The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-) 91, no. 2 (2013): 98 (1 page). Accessed November 14, 2022. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24463366.
  4. Shiloh is currently part of the name for a large number of churches. In the U.S., there are at least 14 existing churches bearing the name Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
  5. “Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church.” Article. In History of Pope County, Arkansas, 94–96. Pope County Historical Society. printed Winston-Salem, NC: Jostens Pub. Co., 1999. Accessed November 14, 2022.
  6. West, D. Porter. Early History of Pope County, 1903.
  7. Parcell, Debra. “Bound for the Promised Land: Camp Meetings and Their Impact on Antebellum Religion and Society.” IUSB Undergraduate Research Journal of History. November 27, 2016. Accessed November 18, 2022. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iusburjh/article/view/22857. “Camp meetings were the only large-scale gatherings on the southern frontier. With no established churches, they provided an opportunity for people to pray and sing together, as well as perform baptisms and weddings. The effort that was put forth to attend these meetings, packing up family and provisions, leaving their farms, travelling great distances, and camping outdoors, proved how vital they were in filling a need for fellowship and spiritual teaching. The struggle of daily life, living in small cabins lacking privacy, the constant threat of illness and death, and the effort expended to meet basic needs required frontier men and women to constantly guard their emotions. The camp meeting setting, away from home and responsibilities, often lowered inhibitions, resulting in the emotional and dramatic style of southern revivals.” “Camping on the grounds was an important factor in the overall experience. This allowed the participants to be fully involved in religious activities for days on end, without the distractions of everyday work and living. Camping also eliminated social and economic distinctions, creating a temporary unified society.”
  8. “Session (Presbyterianism).” Wikipedia, last edit November 4, 2022. Accessed November 16, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_(Presbyterianism). “A session (Presbyterianism) is a body of elected elders governing each local church.”
  9. “General Assembly of the CPCA.” Facebook. Accessed November 16, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/cpcaga/. “The General Assembly is the highest judicatory of this church and represents in one body all the particular churches thereof. It bears the title of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church/Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America and constitutes the bond of union, peace, correspondence, and mutual confidence among all its churches and judicatories.”
  10. “Early History of Pope County, Arkansas.” Article. In History of Pope County, Arkansas, 15. Pope County Historical Society. printed Winston-Salem, NC: Jostens Pub. Co., 1999. Accessed November 14, 2022. “The First Presbyterian Church (in Russellville) was an offshoot of the old Shiloh Church, as the charter members were for the most part people who had moved into town. It was established in 1871, and was originally a Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It was located on the east corner of the block across Main Street from the Forestry Building. The church was later moved to Denver and Main Streets and today is the Central Presbyterian Church.”
  11. “Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church.” Article. ibid, page 94, “The movement of the population from the rural areas to the cities depleted (the Shiloh) neighborhood and resulted in no congregation to serve the Lord from its sanctuary.”
  12. Governors of Arkansas (2nd) (c). p. 251.: University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville.  1981 (n.d.).
  13. “The Williamson Family History.” Article. In History of Pope County, Arkansas, page 482. Pope County Historical Society. printed Winston-Salem, NC: Jostens Pub. Co., 1999. Accessed November 18, 2022.
  14. “Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas : Comprising a Condensed History of the State, a Number of Biographies of Distinguished Citizens of the Same, a Brief Descriptive History of Each of the Counties Mentioned, and Numerous Biographical Sketches of the Citizens of Such Counties : Southern Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.). Internet Archive. Chicago : Southern Pub. Co., January 1, 1891. https://archive.org/details/biographicalhist00sout_0. Accessed November 19, 2022
  15. The Arkansas territorial legislature had two houses, the house of representatives and the legislative council.  Each member of the council represented one of the territory’s counties.
  16. “General Assembly of Arkansas Territory.” Wikipedia, most recent edit December 23, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Assembly_of_Arkansas_Territory. Accessed November 19, 2022. “Members of the eighth General Assembly were elected August 5, 1833. They met in regular session October 7, 1833. John Williamson was elected president of the council; William F. Yeomans, secretary. John Wilson was speaker of the house; James B. Keatts, clerk. The session lasted until November 7, 1833.”

Fair Play’s Ballot Initiative was a FAIL—in more ways than one!

November 17, 2022

Fair Play For Arkansas—2022 (Fair Play) had to accomplish two things in order to get their initiative to remove Pope County’s casino from Amendment 100 onto the Arkansas 2022 general election ballot.

    • They had to provide an initiative with a ballot title and popular name that would satisfy the Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners, and
    • had to have enough signatures.

I attended the meeting at the state capitol where the commissioners considered Fair Play For Arkansas—2022’s ballot title and popular name. Their case was presented by a very capable lawyer from a prestigious Little Rock firm and one of the members of Fair Play’s group. The lawyer’s presentation was embarrassingly weak, rightfully so, as the ballot title and popular name did not accurately reflect what the enacted initiative would have done.

Dustin McDaniel, former Arkansas Attorney General, represented Cherokee Nation Businesses, the holder of the casino license, and explained how the initiative would not accomplish what the ballot title and popular name said it would do.

The commissioners voted to reject the ballot title and popular name.

Fair Play also failed on the signature aspect. They had to get 89,151 valid signatures from registered Arkansas voters. If they didn’t get that but got at least 70%, they would have a 30-day “cure period” to obtain more signatures. Even though they submitted petitions with over 100,000 signatures, they didn’t have enough valid signatures to enter the cure period.

Fair Play spent $3,936,021.45 on the efforts to get it on the ballot. Most of that was paid to a canvassing company out of Colorado who, it has been alleged, hired unqualified canvassers and used unethical practices to get petition signatures.  They were opposed by another organization, Arkansas Tourism Alliance, that very successfully opposed the canvassing campaign and exposed much of what the ballot canvassers had done.

Fair Play received $4,140,827.98 in contributions with Choctaw Gaming in Oklahoma contributing $4,133,527.

The unspent balance is $204,806.53.

In a related legal case, Choctaw has claimed that their fight against a casino was because they stand to lose $12M a year because of the Pope County casino’s proximity to their Pocola casino. It’s 92 miles by road between the two sites.1

That’s ironic since Choctaw was one of the five applicants in the May 2019 application period and has tried to get its foot in the door several times since.

I’ve been told that they weren’t just mad about not being able to get the license, they were pissed!

I think they are sore losers because they weren’t able to successfully compete for the casino license, and, like an unsuccessful suitor, are trying to spoil it for those who did get the license.

  1. It’s 13.3 miles between the Pocola Choctaw casino and the Roland Cherokee casino and 84 miles between Pocola and the Cherokee casino in West Siloam Springs.  Casinos have competitors.  The spacing of the four casinos in Arkansas is intended to minimize the adverse effect of casinos being in close proximity.

Shiloh CCC

November 16, 2022

CCC Camp Shiloh, Russellville, Arkansas, was established as Company 3784, State Project Number SCS-8 (Soil Conservation Service) on June 25, 1935.

On Sunday, June 30, 1935, the first eight young men, all from the Sand Gap CCC Camp, commanded by Lieutenant John C. Foster, arrived at the Shiloh Camp CCC site, three miles north of Russellville. They found an “old field, strewn with waste lumber and overgrown with weeds.”  The only camp buildings were the mess hall and barracks and there were “no lights; no (running) water; no dishes; and a few of the boys were without cots.”

On Monday, fifty-five more reported in, dozens more on Tuesday, and, by the end of the day on July 5th, there were 212 young men in camp.

While most people familiar with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) associate the organization with work in the forests and parks of the country in the 1930s, the primary focus of Camp Shiloh, also known as Fort Shiloh, was soil conservation, performing work to remedy soil erosion.


Aerial view of Camp Shiloh

“The main purpose of these soils conservation camps was to halt the loss of topsoil due to wind and water,” said Boyd Blythe, a former Camp Shiloh CCC worker who later lived in Mabelvale. “Camp Shiloh would have been considered a model soils conservation camp.”

The “using organization” was the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, which contracted with local farmers for the men to perform soil conservation work on the farms. Projects included terracing hillsides, preparing meadow strips—wide drainage ditches that controlled runoff and could be mowed for hay—, sodding pasture land, building stock ponds, and fencing.  CCC men were hauled to the work sites by truck with lunch served in the field.

For recreation, sports teams were organized that played against other camps. Other entertainment opportunities were found nearby.

While most CCC camps were distant from towns and cities, Shiloh was less than 3 miles from Russellville.  Because they were civilians, the men were free to leave camp once work was done.

Paid $25 a month with $20 going to their families, the men had $5 a month to do with as they wished.  A taxi into town was only 35¢, usually split several ways.  Soft drinks were a dime and tickets to a movie were only 25¢. Camp business benefitted the small town of Russellville.

excerpt from 1936 Pope County General Highway and Transportation Map,
Arkansas State Highway Commission

Although some of the US general public was against it, educational opportunities were made available in the CCC camps.  A number of enrollees completed junior high and high school courses.

Some of the Shiloh men attended Arkansas Polytechnic College.  However, most CCC workers at Tech were attached to the Lost Corner camp, whose “using organization” was the Forest Service.  The Lost Corner CCC camp operated the pine tree nursery on the campus and the CCC workers lived on campus.

Camp Shiloh CCC camp was located on Shiloh Creek, east of Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (closed in 1952 and demolished in the 1960s) and today’s Shiloh Park.

Camp Shiloh fulfilled its purpose of building “young men physically and spiritually and to start the nation on a conservation program.” During the Great Depression when a great many were unemployed, it provided useful employment, helping the participants “grow in self-confidence and to learn how to work with and relate to other persons.

Official Annual – Arkansas District Civilian Conservation Corps,
Seventh Corps Area

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Casino Gaming License, November 12, 2021
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Casino Gaming Rules of The State of Arkansas – Arkansas Racing Commission, effective the second week of March 2019
Economic Development Agreement between CNB and Pope County.
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ReImagine Russellville 2040—September 2020, a narrative report on the Comprehensive Plan for Russellville. The plan serves as an official policy statement of the City of Russellville for directing growth and development within its city limits and planning area.

Litigation

  1. There are currently NO active cases related to the Pope County Casino. There have been 18 cases filed so far, including appeals:
    1. 58CV-18-768—Knight v. Gibson; filed 12-27-2018
    2. 58CV-19-439—CFABPC & Knight v Cross et al. filed 8-13-2019.
    3. 60CV-19-5832—Gulfside Casino Partnership v. ARC, filed 8-15-2019.  This was a judicial review of the ARC denial of Gulfside’s application.  Judge Tim Fox ruled in favor of Gulfside. This ruling was reversed and remanded by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Fox again ruled in favor of Gulfside.  The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed his ruling and dismissed the case.
    4. 60CV-19-5858—Knight et al v.ARC, filed 8-15-2019
    5. 58CV-19-462—Gulfside Casino Partnership v. ARC, filed 8-22-2019. A week after 60CV-19-5832 was filed in Pulaski County, Judge Tim Fox said the proper venue was Pope County and sent it there, where it was filed under this case number. Judge William Pearson found that the proper venue was Pulaski County.  The case was returned to Pulaski County, where it was refiled under the original case number and Judge. filed 8-22-2019
    6. CV-19-968—Gulfside Casino Partnership v. ARC, filed 12-23-2019
    7. 60CV-19-9172—CFABPC & Knight v. ARC, filed  12-27-2019
    8. CV-20-145—CFABPC & Knight v Cross et al., filed 3-2-2020
    9. CV-20-211—CNB v. Gulfside, filed 4-2-2020
    10. CV-20-438—CNB v. ADFA, filed 7-8-2020
    11. 58CV-20-429—Cross et al. v. ARC, filed 10-13-2020
    12. 60CV-21-1217—Legends et al v. ARC et al., filed 2-16-2021
    13. 60CV-21-1653—Gulfside v. ARC, filed 3-09-2021
    14. CV-21-289—CNB v. Gulfside, filed 6-28-2021
    15. 60CV-21-7742—Goodin v. ARC, filed 12-7-2021
    16. CV-23-50—Legends v. Gulfside, filed 1-26-2023
    17. CV-23-541—Knight v. ARC, filed 8-11-2023
    18. 60CV-23-7266—Goodin & Thone v. ARC, filed 9-25-2023

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