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Nashville, Tenn. - Today, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued an opinion in Gary Wygant, et al. v. Bill Lee, Governor, et al., rejecting state constitutional challenges to Tennessee’s redistricting statutes for the state House and Senate.

In February 2022, following the 2020 census…

Nashville, Tenn. - The Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments met in Jackson today to select nominees for the upcoming vacancy on the Court of Appeals Western Section, following the retirement of Judge Kenny Armstrong on February 9, 2026. After holding a public hearing and conducting…

Court of Appeals Judge D. Michael Swiney had been practicing law in Knoxville for about eight years when he and his colleagues decided to leave their practice and open their own litigation firm.

“It was Don Paine, any of the older lawyers around will know him, Dwight Tarwater, now Justice…