While recent summary judgment motions from both sides indicate that the city of Little Rock and the Terry House heirs are now in consensus that the property should be returned to the heirs, there is still disagreement about whether the city should pay for restoration of the historic mansion and grounds.
Richard Mays
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State asks judge to dismiss lawsuit challenging LEARNS voucher program
“The Constitution does not prohibit private schools from receiving state funds,” the attorney general argued.
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Lawsuit challenges LEARNS voucher program as unconstitutional
The lawsuit says the genesis of the LEARNS voucher program lies in efforts to resist federal desegregation orders in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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The Pike-Fletcher-Terry House may soon return to heirs, attorney says
Regardless of who ends up owning the downtown mansion, Attorney Richard Mays said the heirs would seek damages. He estimated repair costs for the deteriorating property at $2 million.
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A voting rights win in Alabama launches Arkansas gerrymander lawsuit back into action
The crafty slice-and-dice of Arkansas’s congressional map that splinters Pulaski County’s Black voters into three pieces and loops more white, conservative voters into Republican Rep. French Hill’s 2nd District is facing renewed resistance.
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Judge dismisses AMFA foundation from Terry House lawsuit
The lawsuit alleges that the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, its foundation and the city of Little Rock have not properly maintained the Pike-Fletcher-Terry House as was required in a 1964 deed.
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The Pike-Fletcher-Terry House remains shuttered as lawsuit creeps along
In 1964, heirs to the house deeded the property to the city of Little Rock. They specified that the house should be used for public benefit as part of the Arkansas Arts Center, now named the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Now the house is locked and deteriorating, and a lawsuit contends conditions of the deed have not been met.
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A sharp retort in legal battle over Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ poor stewardship of Terry Mansion
Did the Museum of Fine Arts Foundation really mean to suggest plaintiffs in a lawsuit over its deplorable stewardship of a historic mansion were looking for taxpayer handouts?
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Legal fees — on both sides — mount on freeway project that shouldn’t have been built
Legal fees mount on both sides in the highway department’s I-30 boondoggle in Little Rock.
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Another court setback for state highway agency on I-30 expansion spending
The state will have to find a new money shuffle to pay for the I-30 expansion through Little Rock after a court ruling this week.