The Bullock Law Firm

08/07/2025

ARKANSAS DRIVER ALERT!!!

A new traffic law goes into effect in Arkansas today. Act 327 of 2025, doubles fines for moving traffic violations in mobile work zones. Previously, traffic fines were only doubled in static (or stationary) work zones.

What is a “mobile work zone”? The term includes any area of/within on a roadway in Arkansas where construction, maintenance, or any other type of work is being performed for a limited period of time by employees of ARDOT, cities, counties, or contractors. 'Mobile' work activities include debris removal, road striping, pothole patching, etc.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order for the 'double fine' law to kick in, the work zones must be marked by a sign, channelizing device, barrier, or work vehicle with lights. WATCH FOR THESE WARNING SIGNS - and please, BE SAFE OUT THERE!

05/20/2025

WHAT IS 'JUSTICE'?

The Roman philosopher Seneca defined justice as 'a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed'. This is a radical paradigm shift from modern concepts, which tend to focus on justice as punishment/retribution for wrongs done or damage caused.

If the goal of justice is LESSENING HARM, surely it must not involve offense, outrage, or vengeance. After all, each of those three named toxic imposters do the opposite of lessoning harm; they actually INCREASE HARM - by glorifying, justifying, perpetuating, and exacerbating harmful behavior in the name of 'justice'.

If the goal of justice is LESSENING HARM, a Divinely inspired and guided blend of wisdom and compassion, gentleness and strength, insight into the causes of evil and understanding of the power of goodness must lie at its root.

05/28/2024

Scam Alert!

People in Bowie County are receiving telephone calls from people claiming [falsely] to be Bowie County deputies. If you have caller ID, the calls may appear to come from a Lake Tawakoni, Texas number, but scammers like this often use 'spoofed' numbers at random. The scam involves an accusation that you either failed to report for grand jury or petit jury duty, or that you owe outstanding fines. The scam artist then tries to get you to pay the fines over the internet, or via bitcoin. For more details, see the link below.

Be on the alert!

the SCAMMER claims to be a Deputy with our Office and demands payment for outstanding fines or for missing jury duty.

10/18/2022

Attention all Arkansas residents [and absentee landowners!]

07/11/2022

Take Note: By order of the Commissioner's Court of Bowie County, Texas, Bowie County is now officially under a 'burn ban'. Unless cancelled early, this ban begins today and will continue for 90 days.

06/28/2022

WHAT DOBBS DOES AND DOES NOT SAY AND DO

There is a lot of inflammatory rhetoric going around about what the United States Supreme Court did or did not do recently in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In that case the Court was called upon to determine if a statute passed by the Mississippi state legislature outlawing the performing of abortions in Mississippi in cases where the baby in question had been in the womb for 15 weeks or more constituted a violation of the United States Constitution. The Jackson Women's Health Organization (an abortion provider) sued Mississippi authorities arguing, based on Roe v. Wade, that the United States Constitution, though it nowhere mentions abortion or babies in the womb at all, implicitly recognizes that a woman has the right to abort her baby for any reason up to the point of presumed outside-the-womb viability (which the Roe court opined was not until the beginning of the third trimester). The abortion provider's argument was that state legislatures could not restrict abortions prior to the third trimester.

The Supreme Court merely ruled that there is no federally-guaranteed or constitutional right to an abortion, and that therefore the State legislature of Mississippi, or any other state legislature for that matter, must decide for itself if, when, and under what circumstances abortion is or is not going to be allowed within that state's sovereign boundaries.

The Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs does NOT mean that abortions are now illegal across the United States. Abortion availability in this country will not magically go away. Since by no means are all states likely to outlaw abortions, if a woman really wants to abort her baby the most she will have to do to make that happen is travel to an abortion-friendly state to have the procedure she wants.