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5 Attorneys Reprimanded, Including Arkansas Judge's Husband

KUAR | By Associated Press,
Chris Hickey
Published August 4, 2016 at 9:09 AM CDT
John Goodson, husband of Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson, is one of the reprimanded lawyers. He also serves on the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees.
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John Goodson, husband of Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson, is one of the reprimanded lawyers. He also serves on the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees.

Listen to a discussion with KUAR's Chris Hickey and Mark Friedman of Arkansas Business.

John Goodson, husband of Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson, is one of the reprimanded lawyers. He also serves on the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees.
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John Goodson, husband of Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson, is one of the reprimanded lawyers. He also serves on the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees.

A federal judge has reprimanded five attorneys, including the husband of an Arkansas Supreme Court justice, for acting in bad faith and abuse of the court system.

Chief U.S. District Court Judge P.K. Holmes III on Wednesday reprimanded John Goodson - husband of state Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson; his law partner, Matt Keil; Jason Earnest Roselius of Oklahoma City; and Martin Weber Jr. and Richard Norman, both of Houston.

The order stems from a class-action lawsuit against auto insurers that lawyers dismissed from Holmes' court and refiled a settlement in Polk County state court.

Holmes said the move was to avoid an adverse decision in his court and to benefit the attorneys financially at the expense of plaintiffs.

Filings in the case by the attorneys denied that they acted with malice or in bad faith.

Read more from Arkansas Business.

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Chris Hickey
Chris Hickey was born and raised in Houston, Texas, spending his teenage years in Camden, Ohio. He graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, majoring in English. He got his start in public radio working as a board operator at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio during his summer and winter breaks from school. Since graduating, he has made Little Rock home. He joined KUAR in September 2011 as a production intern and has since enjoyed producing, anchoring and reporting for the station. He is the composer of KUAR's Week-In-Review Podcast theme music and the associate producer of Arts & Letters.
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