96 Ark. App. 270 - Smith v. McCracken’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Amendment 80 merged in Arkansas what were once chancery and circuit courts into circuit courts, so that any circuit court would thereafter have jurisdiction “over all matters previously cognizable by Circuit, Chancery, Probate, and Juvenile Courts.” See Amend. 80 § 19(B)(1). Amendment 80 § 6(A) provides that circuit courts are established as the trial courts of original jurisdiction of all justiciable matters not otherwise assigned pursuant to the Arkansas Constitution. Section 6(B) of this same amendment allows the division of the circuit court into subject-matter divisions and provides that any judge within the circuit may sit in any division.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Nelson