Quattlebaum | Firm wins reversal of $34 million ruling and was successful in regulatory matter

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC (Little Rock, AR)

Firm wins reversal of $34 million ruling and was successful in regulatory matter

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC attorneys E. B. (Chip) Chiles IV, Steven W. Quattlebaum, R. Ryan Younger, and S. Katie Calvert represented a group of online travel companies appealing from a $34 million judgment for state and local gross receipts and tourism taxes. Two weeks after oral argument, the Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously held that the taxes did not apply to the online travel companies and their services, and the Court reversed the judgment completely, ending a nearly 15-year legal dispute.

In a separate matter, E. B. (Chip) Chiles IV and Sarah Keith-Bolden successfully challenged waste management regulations that subjected their stakeholder clients to competing demands by two solid waste management districts. The trial court agreed with the firm that these regulations exceeded the enacting district’s statutory authority, and the Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed that decision three weeks after oral argument, resulting in a complete victory for the stakeholders.