Judge dismisses lawsuit over Arkansas eye surgery referendum

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas judge has dismissed a lawsuit trying to
prevent a referendum this fall on a new law expanding the procedures that
optometrists can perform. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen dismissed
the lawsuit Tuesday by Arkansans for Healthy Eyes, which is a group opposed to
the referendum effort. The lawsuit claimed the referendum wasn’t approved under
the correct process. The new law allows optometrists to perform several
procedures that previously only ophthalmologists could perform. The state
Supreme Court last week said it wouldn’t reconsider its ruling that state
election officials must count thousands of signatures submitted for the proposed
referendum.

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