Scott Poynter

The 120-room hotel in west Little Rock weighed in at $4.46 million. read more >

A west Little Rock hotel starts this week’s installment of million-dollar real estate transactions and construction contracts in Pulaski County. read more >

New filings in a complex legal case shed light on a dispute among law partners over dispensary ownership. read more >

The attorneys are being sued on accusations that they set up straw owners for two medical marijuana dispensaries. read more >

Prominent Arkansans have accused their attorney friends of setting them up as figurehead owners of medical marijuana dispensaries, sticking them with massive tax bills and casting new doubts on the integrity of the state’s cannabis licensing system. read more >

Summit Utilities’ fumble of its billing conversion could be an expensive lesson for the natural gas provider. read more >

Summit had previously agreed that the state regulatory body was the proper venue to hear grievances against the company. read more >

A federal judge in Little Rock recently ruled that a lawsuit involving about 100 independent pharmacies against pharmacy benefit managers can move forward. read more >

The lawsuit says the Craighead County Election Commission knew about the error for more than a week before early voting began. read more >

The case is now over involving a group of Lonoke County farmers who were victims of the defunct Turner Grain Inc. of Brinkely. read more >

Arkansas Supreme Court finds lack of evidence that K.B.X. wronged farmers. read more >

Lackie Drug Store of Lonoke is suing six of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the country, saying it won’t be able to survive because the drug reimbursement rates it receives from the PBMs are often below its cost. read more >

Former law partners Scott Poynter and John Emerson continue to fight in court over liens and loans tied to 1887 Rozelle-Murphy House. read more >

A Lonoke County Circuit judge recently sanctioned K.B.X. Inc. of Benton, which is being sued by farmers who allegedly lost millions dealing with Turner Grain Inc., finding that K.B.X. intentionally deleted employees’ text messages. read more >

Country music festival concert-goers received a legal victory last week when the Arkansas Court of Appeals found that their potential class-action lawsuit could go forward against an organizer of the canceled Thunder on the Mountain event at Mulberry Mountain near Ozark in 2015. read more >

The canceled Thunder on the Mountain music event, planned for near Ozark, has led to dueling lawsuits and a class-action claim on behalf of ticket holders. read more >

The Arkansas Supreme Court sided with a Saline County Circuit Court ruling and denied Alltel Corp. of Little Rock, which sold to Verizon Wireless in 2009, arbitration in a class-action case. read more >

More companies are eagerly adding language to contracts and terms of agreements that require any disputes that arise to be handled in arbitration. Once there, the complaint is decided by an arbitrator rather than in the courts with a judge or jury deciding the case, a procedure that one proponent described as “simpler, fairer, faster.” read more >