{"id":"DUT-AR-017","kind":"duty","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas (Judge Wendell Griffen); Supreme Court of Arkansas (No. CV-20-721)","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. 25-15-201 et seq. (Administrative Procedure Act) and 12-75-101 et seq. (as pleaded)","instrument":"Sullivan v. Romero, order of dismissal (Pulaski Cnty. Cir. Ct., Oct. 2020); appeal No. CV-20-721 dismissed on appellants\u0027 motion (Ark. Apr. 2021)","title":"Sullivan v. Romero: eighteen legislators\u0027 challenge to forty-three Department of Health COVID-19 directives (Mar. 13-Aug. 21, 2020) as rules not promulgated under the Administrative Procedure Act; dismissed","dateIssued":"","effective":"2020-10","end":"2021-04 (appeal dismissed on appellants\u0027 motion; argument had been set for Apr. 8, 2021)","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-04-08","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["persons generally (the directives\u0027 addressees)"],"clause":"","enforcement":"n/a","functions":[],"notes":"As reported, the circuit court held that the directives the Governor\u0027s administration issued were within its authority under State law and dismissed the suit; the appellants abandoned the appeal in April 2021, so the forty-three directives (and their successors) stood unreversed as binding instruments for the whole period. Character as recorded: adjudication (order_penalty layer).","sourceUrl":"https://talkbusiness.net/2020/09/lawsuit-filed-to-halt-health-directives-governors-emergency-actions/","snapshot":"","fileExists":false,"fileBytes":0,"grade":"secondary","character":"adjudication","description":"","collection":"DUT-AR","url":"/library/DUT-AR-017","exhibitUrl":null,"citation":"Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas (Judge Wendell Griffen); Supreme Court of Arkansas (No. CV-20-721), Sullivan v. Romero, order of dismissal (Pulaski Cnty. Cir. Ct., Oct. 2020); appeal No. CV-20-721 dismissed on appellants\u0027 motion (Ark. Apr. 2021) (Ex. DUT-AR-017)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":[]}