Burchfield, Jessie, The End of an Era? Abolishing the Abstract Requirement for Arkansas Appellate Briefs, 20 The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 199 (2019).
This article describes the history of a rule of Arkansas appellate practice that “creates more problems for the court and for the appellate bar than all the other court’s rules put together.” It examines the failure of previous reform efforts and advocates for permanent adoption of proposed rules that would abolish the abstract requirement.
