SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS ri.o. CY-74-427 NATHANIEL SMITH, M.D., M.P.H., Opinion Delivered June 26, 2075 INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE APPEAL FROM THE PULASKI
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT HEALTH, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, AND HIS SUCCESSORS [NO. 60CV-13-2662)
IN OFFICE; RICHARD WEISS,
DIRECTOR OF THE ARKANSAS
DEPARTMENT FINANCE AND HONORABLE CHRISTOPHER ADMINISTRATION, IN HIS OFFICIAL CHARLES PTAZZA, JUDGE CAPACITY, HIS SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE; PULASKI
CIRCUIT/COUNTY CLERK, LARRY
CRANE, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, HIS SUCCESSORS IN
INTEREST; WHITE COUNTY CLERK, DISMISSED.
CHERYL EVANS, IN HER OFFICIAL
CAPACITY, HER SUCCESSORS
IN INTEREST; LONOKE COUNTY
CLERK, "LARRY" CLARKE,
IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY,
HIS SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST;
CONWAY COUNTY CLERK, DEBBIE
HARTMAN, IN HER OFFICIAL
CAPACITY, HER SUCCESSORS
IN OFFICE; SALINE COUNTY CLERK,
DOUG CURTIS, IN HIS OFFICIAL
CAPACITY, HIS SUCCESSORS
IN OFFICE; FAULKNER COUNTY
CLERK, MELINDA REYNOLDS, IN
HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY, HER
SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE;
WASHINGTON COUNTY CLERK,
BECKY LEWALLEN, IN HER
OFFICIAL CAPACITY, HER
SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE
APPELLANTS V.
M. KENDALL WRIGHT AND JULIA E.
WRIGHT, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON
BEHALF THEIR MINOR
CHILDREN, G.D.W. AND P.L.W.;
RHONDA L. EDDY TREBA L.
LEATH; CAROL L. OWENS AND
RANEE J. HARP; NATALIE WARTICK
AND TOMMIEJ. WARTICK,
INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF
THEIR MINOR SON T.B.W.;
KIMBERLY M. KIDWELL AND
KATHRYN E. SHORT;JAMES BOONE WESLEY GIVENS; KIMBERLY M.
ROBINSON FELICITY L.
ROBINSON; LINDA L. MEYERS AND
ANGELA K. SHELBY; GREGORY A.
BRUCE AND WILLIAM D. SMITH,JR.;
MONICAJ. LOYD ANDJENNIFER L.
LOCHRIDGE; JENNIFER D. MOORE
AND MANDY A. LYLES; JONATHAN
K. GOBER AND MARK R.
NORWINE; ANDRA ALSBURY AND
AMBER GARDNER-ALSBURY;
ANGELA SPEARS GULLETTE
LIVICIE C. GULLETTE; SHANNON
HAVENS RACHEL
WITTENBURG; CODY RENEGAR THOMAS STAED; KATHERINE
HENSON AND ANGELIA BUFORD;
CHRISTOPHER H. HORTON
MICHAEL E. POTTS; JOHN SCHENCK ROBERT LOYD; A.
KING ANDJOHN MCCLAY
RANKINE; ARICA NAVARRO;
PATRICIA NAVARRO; AND RANDY GARY EDDY-MCCAIN
APPELLEES PER CURIAM
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This is an appeal from the Pulaski County Circuit Court's ruling that amendment 83 to the Arkansas Constitution and Acts 144 and 146 of 7997 are unconstitutional under both the Arkansas and United States Constitutions. In light of the Supreme Court's decision in (fune 26,2075), holding that such marriage laws violate the Obergefell u. Hoilges,576 U.S.
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, there are no remainingjusticiable issues in this apped, and the appeal is moot. Bd. of Trustees of the Uniu. of Ark. u, Crauford Cnty. Cir. Ct.,2014 Ark. 60, 431S.W.3d 851 (holding that a case becomes moot when any judgment rendered would have no practical legal effect upon a then existing legal controversy).
Appeal dismissed.