Supreme Court of Arkansas February 28, 1990, 89-89 (Medlock v. Pledger)

David Newbern, Justice.

The question in this case is whether the imposition of a sales tax on cable television service is an unconstitutional, and thus illegal, exaction because the tax does not apply to other mass communications media. We hold that, for a time, the tax was illegal because it was not levied on other, similar services, such as satellite television programming.