Cite as 2020 Ark. App. 201
ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
DIVISION IV
No. CV-19-328
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AMEEN OLWAN ET AL. APPELLANT
V.
ARKANSAS TOBACCO CONTROL BOARD APPELLEE
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Opinion Delivered: March 18, 2020
APPEAL FROM THE PULASKI COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, SECOND DIVISION [NO. 60CV-17-6533]
HONORABLE CHRISTOPHER CHARLES PIAZZA, JUDGE
DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE
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WAYMOND M. BROWN, Judge
The Arkansas Tobacco Control Board (Board) revoked appellant Ameen Olwan’s permits to sell tobacco products after finding that he “was in possession of . . . tobacco products with unpaid [excise] taxes, and he purchased tobacco, vapor, or alternative nicotine products from unlicensed dealers.” Following Olwan’s petition for judicial review of the administrative adjudication as permitted under Arkansas Code Annotated section 25-15-212 (Supp. 2019), the Pulaski County Circuit Court remanded the case to the Board for new hearings. Olwan appeals the circuit court’s order of remand; however, because he appeals from a nonfinal order, we must dismiss the appeal.
On December 18, 2018, the circuit court entered an order that states the following:
This case is remanded to the Arkansas Tobacco Control Board for two new hearings; the first is to decide whether revocation of Petitioner’s tobacco permits was proper and the second to rehear Arkansas Tobacco Control Case Number 2016-0227.
A circuit court’s order of remand to an administrative agency for further proceedings is not a final, appealable order.[1] Because the order is not final, we lack jurisdiction to hear the present appeal.
Dismissed without prejudice.
Klappenbach and Vaught, JJ., agree.
Hancock Law Firm, by: Charles D. Hancock, for appellant.
Lyndsey D. Burnette, Arkansas Tobacco Control, for appellee.