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WILLIAMS v. MARTIN

No. CV-14-370.

2014 Ark. 210

LONNIE WILLIAMS, APPELLANT, v. MARK MARTIN, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; JAMES BARGAR, PAUL FOSTER AND BETTY PICKETT, IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES AS THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE FAULKNER COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION; L.C. RATCHFORD, DOYLE RAGLAND, G.C. BLAIR, IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES AS THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SEARCY COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION; STEPHEN JAMES, JIM KIRKENDOLL, AND BOB PATTERSON, IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES AS THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE VAN BUREN COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION; AND ANGELA BYRD, APPELLEES, LESLIE STEEN, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS AND ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS THIRD-PARTY APPELLANT, v. ANGELA BYRD, THIRD-PARTY APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Opinion Delivered May 14, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC, by: John E. Tull III and Joseph R. Falasco ; and Baxter, Jewell & Dobson, P.A., for appellant.

Martha Adcock , General Counsel, and L. Justin Tate , Associate General Counsel, for appellee Secretary of State Mark Martin.

David Hogue , for appellee Faulkner County Election Commission.

Robert A. Newcomb , for appellee/third-party appellee Angela Byrd.

Bristow & Richardson, PLLC, by: Bill W. Bristow , for third-party appellant Leslie Steen.

JIM HANNAH, Chief Justice.

This appeal arises from a pre-election challenge to the eligibility of a candidate for the non-partisan judicial election on May 20, 2014, and a challenge to the constitutionality of Rule VII(C) of the Arkansas Supreme Court Rules Governing Admission to the Bar. Appellant, Lonnie Williams, a registered voter residing in the Twentieth Judicial District in Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas, petitioned the Pulaski County Circuit Court for a...

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