Pulaski County Court Calendars Explained
Pulaski County does not run one master calendar. Circuit divisions set their own hearings. The District Court system adds the Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville, Sherwood, and Maumelle departments, each with its own clerk and local schedule. For a Circuit matter, the live public calendar is the Case Events block in Search ARCourts, where each event may list the date, time, label, room, location, and judge. Docket Entries sit beside it, preserving the hearing notices, orders, resets, and continuances that show how a schedule shifted. Read both blocks together.
Not every District Court takes part in Search ARCourts. Coverage is spotty, so the named lower court is the final word on a setting.
Pulaski Circuit Event Calendar
The Sixth Judicial Circuit judges directory connects divisions, rooms, and direct telephone lines.
Pulaski Circuit runs 17 divisions under its administrative plan, assigning cases by subject and by equal or random assignment rules. A portal event may carry a label like COURTROOM 330, 3RD DIVISION. That room belongs to the event data itself. It is not a generic courthouse destination.
Write the division down with the setting. Close to the date, call the assigned division's phone, since the judge controls the calendar while the clerk records the order and event.
Finding Your Court Date
Begin with the case number when you have it. Search ARCourts can find a Pulaski Circuit event by participant name, but the number keeps you from opening another person's case. Check PULASKI CIRCUIT, the case type, and the current status. Then open Case Events and read the newest Docket Entries.
- Open Search ARCourts and find the correct case by number or name.
- Confirm the court, case type, filing date, and parties.
- Record date, time, event, room, location, judge, and division.
- Check recent entries for a notice, order, continuance, or reset.
- Confirm with the assigned Circuit division or exact District Court clerk.
- Call Court Clerks at 501-340-8431 or visit 401 West Markham if online access fails.
Authorized juvenile participants can call the juvenile clerk at 501-340-6767. An attorney may also confirm a party's setting from the filed order and court communications. During emergencies, watch Arkansas Judiciary closure notices and check the assigned court.
Pulaski Court Directory Checks
The statewide Circuit clerks directory confirms the Pulaski Circuit and County Clerk channel.
That clerk route fits Circuit docket records, not every lower-court setting. The separate District Courts directory names the local departments and their clerks.
These two directories fix a common Pulaski calendar mistake. The county name alone never tells you which court set the hearing.
How to Read a Court Setting
A court setting is a full event row. Copy every field you see, because a date alone, with no time or room, may not put you in the right place. Multi-day jury trials can list several adjacent rows. The Case Summary around them carries the case number and caption that tie those rows to one Pulaski County docket.
| Date & Time | The scheduled start; separate rows may reserve more than one trial day. |
|---|---|
| Event | The purpose, such as plea and arraignment, motion, pretrial, jury trial, or sentencing. |
| Room | The courtroom number and often the Circuit division. |
| Location | The court-level location, such as CIRCUIT. |
| Judge | The judicial officer assigned to the event. |
Match the row against any signed scheduling order. The portal is an information view; the official order and court record control.
Pulaski Court Setting Terms
Local event labels explain why a case sits on the Pulaski County court calendar. Trial is not the only reason. Plea and arraignment covers the formal criminal charge and the plea process. An omnibus hearing bundles pretrial issues into one setting. A motion hearing takes up a filed request, not a ruling. A pretrial hearing checks readiness and scheduling.
- Jury trial
- A trial reserved for a jury; multiple rows may represent a multi-day setting.
- Bench or non-trial
- A matter decided without a jury or placed on a non-trial track.
- Status or review
- A progress, compliance, or case-management check.
- Continuance
- A court-authorized postponement.
- Reset
- A replacement date that should be checked against the prior event and order.
A recurring docket day does not prove a case is still set. The case event and the signed order must agree.
Continuances, Resets, and Cancellations
Asking for a continuance moves nothing by itself. The judge must grant relief first. A reset may then show up as a new Case Events row. It can also appear as a docket entry for a continuance or amended order, or both. Keep the old and new dates side by side, since the sequence records what changed.
Case Events may sit blank. If a recent notice sits in Docket Entries, call the division. When the two show different dates, trust the signed order and direct court confirmation. Weather or building closures can force a last-minute change before every public display catches up.
Best check: Record the full event, read the newest order, then call the assigned court close to the hearing date.
Pulaski Reset History
Docket Entries hold more setting history than any future-events list. A prior date can stay in the chronology after a newer event replaces it. That is not an error. It traces the path from notice to continuance to reset. That matters when you reconstruct what the Pulaski County court calendar showed at different points.
Search by case number, never by date alone. A common name can return several schedules, and a date search may pull unrelated cases. The Pulaski County case lookup walks through the name and number fields. Those fields reach the right event.
Note: A reset changes the active setting, but the Pulaski docket may retain the former date as part of case history.
Pulaski Appellate Calendar Boundaries
Appellate courts keep their own calendars, apart from Pulaski trial settings. The Arkansas Supreme Court page is the official source for that court's schedule.
The Arkansas Court of Appeals page covers the intermediate appellate court.
An appeal may add entries to a Pulaski Circuit docket. But oral argument or submission on appeal belongs to the appellate court's own calendar.
Pulaski Federal Calendar Boundary
Federal cases filed in Pulaski County never touch Search ARCourts. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas works through CM/ECF and PACER. Appeals go to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Read the caption before trusting any date. The court heading tells you which system owns it. A federal event and a Pulaski state-court event can both take place in Little Rock yet answer to different clerks, buildings, calendars, and rules.
Pulaski District Calendar Splits
District Court calendar coverage is split on purpose. Pulaski County District Court and each city department keep their own limited-jurisdiction dockets. Search ARCourts includes some District Courts, but not all. A traffic, ordinance, misdemeanor, or small-claims setting may still take a phone call to the named clerk. A recurring calendar is not your case date. North Little Rock civil and small claims may sit on a stated Tuesday pattern, and Pulaski County District Court may keep recurring specialty days. Your case still needs a signed or entered date. Ask for the date, time, courtroom, judge, and setting type.
If You Miss a Court Setting
Act fast. Pull up the Pulaski docket. Look for any entry made after the missed time, and then contact the assigned court or your attorney. The clerk can describe the recorded setting and later entries but cannot give legal advice. Do not assume the case was dismissed. Do not assume a new date will appear without action either.
Missed setting: A missed appearance can lead to a failure-to-appear action, warrant, bond consequence, default, dismissal, or another court order depending on the case.
Call the responsible Circuit division or District Court clerk at once and ask what the official record now shows.
Seek advice from a licensed Arkansas attorney about the proper next step in the specific case.
The Pulaski County court calendar is a list of settings. It is not permission to ignore an existing order while you wait for the portal to change.
Pulaski County Multi-Day Trial Calendar
A jury trial can reserve more than one day on the Pulaski County court calendar. Search ARCourts can display adjacent Case Events rows for the same case. Each row carries its own date and time. The first row is not the whole story. Write down each row. Include its room, the location, the judge, and the division. Then compare the series with the signed scheduling order and the most recent docket entries. Multiple rows can also help you tell a trial reservation from a one-time motion or review hearing. A reservation spans days. Still, the public list has limits. It never tells a party to ignore later instructions from the court. Trials end early. One may be continued, or moved, after the events were first posted. The assigned division stays the close-to-date source for the live Pulaski County calendar. So save the case number with your calendar notes. A date copied without the Pulaski case identifier can be confused with another hearing. The same room can host several cases. Keep the number, the case caption, and the event row together. Do that any time a setting is written down or shared with an authorized participant.