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Eastern District of Arkansas - Realignment of Divisions

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Congress has realigned the Eastern District of Arkansas into three new divisions:

Central Division – Court shall be held in Little Rock.
Delta Division – Court shall be held in Helena.
Northern Division – Court shall be held in Jonesboro.

Impact on Case Management and Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF)  

  • All current case numbers will remain the same. 
  • New cases will no longer be assigned to the former divisions that contained Batesville and Pine Bluff. 
  • New case numbers will be sequential to the case numbers assigned in the divisions that contain Little Rock (Central), Helena (Delta) and Jonesboro (Northern). 
  • All civil and criminal cases filings should reflect the new divisional names in the heading of all documents.

Impact on Trials and Court Hearings 

  • All trials and hearings currently scheduled for Little Rock, Helena and Jonesboro will remain in those locations. 
  • Trials and hearings scheduled in the former divisions that contained Batesville and Pine Bluff will be shifted to the new divisions.  Some rescheduling may be necessary — either on motion or by the Court sua sponte.

Please call 501-604-5351 if you have any questions.

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