“[The Arkansas Supreme Court] and the Court of Appeals will soon step into the future: effective July 1, 2009 the electronic version of appellate decisions posted on the Arkansas Judiciary website [link] will the official reports of those decisions. Arkansas will be the first state in the nation to publish and distribute the official report of its appellate decisions electronically.” In re: Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Rule 5-2 (May 28, 2009).
Publication of the Arkansas Reports and Arkansas Appellate Reports will end with volume 375 Ark./104 Ark. App. Hat tip to Coleen Barger (UALR Bowen School of Law), Legal Writing Prof Blog.
A most welcome development. While the linked announcement is a PDF of a scanned fax (yuk!), the opinions currently on the site are nice clean text-based PDF files and site boasts a page of RSS feeds that let you keep track of what is going on. Let’s hope this is fast moving trend.