Lawsuit challenges suspension of driving licenses for unpaid fines
A group of civil rights advocates has filed a federal class-action lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s suspension of more than 250,000 driver’s licenses affecting people too poor to pay traffic tickets,...
View ArticleTennessean leads National Opioid Task Force set up by state courts
News release from Administrative Office of the Courts Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) Director Deborah Taylor Tate and Indiana Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush were appointed co-chairs...
View ArticleGovernor names new Shelby County judge
News release from the governor’s office NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today appointed David M. Rudolph Circuit Court Judge for the 30th Judicial District, which serves Shelby County. The...
View ArticleTN Supreme Court seeks pay raise for indigent attorneys
News release from Administrative Office of the Courts Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee Supreme Court, acting on recommendations from its Indigent Representation Task Force, is taking action to reform...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals upholds removal of Confederate names from Memphis parks
The state Court of Appeals in Jackson, affirming a February ruling by the Shelby County Chancery Court, has ruled that the City of Memphis had the legal authority to rename despite contentions to the...
View ArticleState Supreme Court considers using nationwide test for TN lawyers
Press release from Administrative Office of the Courts Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee Board of Law Examiners has filed a petition with the Supreme Court of Tennessee to adopt the Uniform Bar...
View ArticleTN Supreme Court affirms death sentence in Memphis triple murder
Press release from Administrative Office of the Courts Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and sentences of death for Sedrick Clayton for the murders of Arithio,...
View ArticleJudge gets reprimand for granting jail sentence reductions for vasectomies
White County General Sessions Jud Sam Benningfied has been reprimanded by the state Board of Judicial Conduct for offering jail inmates 30 days off their time behind bars for getting vasectomies or...
View ArticleTN Supreme Court: You can’t claim self-defense if ‘engaged in unlawful activity’
Press release from Administrative Office of the Courts Nashville, Tenn. – The Supreme Court of Tennessee clarified the law of self-defense when the person making the claim is engaged in unlawful...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals rules for TV station in DA’s libel lawsuit
The state Court of Appeals has unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that would have required Nashville TV station WTVF and reporter Phil Williams to turn over documents related to reporting on...
View ArticleJudge’s law license suspended; legislator says no impeachment plans ‘at this...
State Rep. Gary Hicks, R-Rogersville, tells the Kingsport Times News he has no plans “at this time” to launch impeachment proceedings against Hawkins County Juvenile Court Judge Daniel Boyd, whose...
View ArticleTN Supremes give Dad custody of kids after Mom’s move to Moonlight Bunny Ranch
Press release from Administrative Office of the Courts Nashville, Tenn. – In a case involving the custody of two minor children, the Tennessee Supreme Court determined that Father had established that...
View ArticleHaslam goes against parole board, exonerates man in 1978 rape conviction
Press release from Gov. Bill Haslam NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today issued the following statement on the exoneration of Lawrence McKinney: “Today I granted Lawrence McKinney’s request for...
View ArticleAppeals court upholds TN constitutional amendment on abortion
By a 3-0 vote, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected a legal challenge to the 2014 vote that added an amendment to the Tennessee Constitution dealing with abortion, overturning a lower...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court takes up state sales tax dispute; Haslam and Slatery hopeful
Gov. Bill Haslam and state Attorney General Herbert Slatery are both hailing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear arguments in a case they hope will authorize states to require retailers to...
View ArticleTN Supremes look to legislators’ intent in backing multiple gun crime...
Reversing the an appellate court decision after reviewing state legislators’ intent in enactment of a state law, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that defendants can be convicted on multiple...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court rejects appeals of nine TN death row inmates; one...
Press release from Administrative Office of the Courts The Tennessee Supreme Court set an execution date of August 9, 2018, for Billy Ray Irick, who was convicted of the 1985 murder and rape of Paula...
View ArticleJudge issues temporary injunction in Confederate statues lawsuit
An injunction issued by a judge Monday was “a partial, if unsurprising, win for the Sons of Confederate Veterans” in a lawsuit filed against Memphis Greenspace Inc., the nonprofit that recently removed...
View ArticleNew idea for AG selection: Supreme Court nominates, subject to General...
A Republican senator said Monday he is revising his resolution that would change the Tennessee Constitution and put the General Assembly in charge of naming the state’s next attorney general, reports...
View ArticleTN Supreme Court rejects refund of liquor stores’ overpaid taxes
Press release from Administrative Office of the Courts Nashville, Tenn. – In a unanimous opinion, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that a taxpayer must pay disputed municipal taxes under protest...
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