Arkansas Legal Overview: Texarkana The Texarkana, TX-Texarkana, AR metropolitan area is defined by the Census Bureau as a two county area spanning the Texas-Arkansas state line. The metro area covers both Bowie County, Texas and Miller County, Arkansas. The Miller County Circuit Court is the main trial court for Texarkana metro area residents who live in Arkansas, while the Fifth District Court in Bowie County serves the Texas half of the metro area.
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1. Miller County is served by the eighth judicial circuit based in Texarkana, AR. The circuit clerk's office in the same courthouse handles filings and dockets for all the divisions, from the juvenile court to criminal proceedings and petitions for divorce in Arkansas. The Miller County District Court with limited jurisdiction is also located in Texarkana, AR and handles misdemeanors, traffic violations and city/county ordinance violations, among other things. Bowie County, TX is served by the Fifth District Court based in New Boston, TX. 2. A patent infringement lawsuit has been filed against Wal-Mart and Microsoft in the Texarkana Division of the U.S. District Court Western District of Arkansas. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Chinese company objecting to the use of Chinese characters in computers by defendants. 3. A group of insurance companies battling a class-action lawsuit in Miller County, AR are trying to get the case moved from the Miller County Circuit Court to the U.S. District Court Western District of Arkansas. The plaintiffs want the case to stay in the state court since the same judge had handed down a $185 million verdict in a similar prior case.
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Trending Texarkana Legal Topics: Appeals against Miller County Circuit Court decisions can be filed with the Arkansas Court of Appeals, with the Arkansas Supreme Court as the court of last resort. Appeals against decisions taken by the Bowie County District Court can be filed in different courts. Criminal case appeals go to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and no further, while civil case appeals can be taken on by one of the intermediate appellate courts of appeal and then by the Texas Supreme Court as the court of last resort. |