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Perkins vs. Dept. of Employment Security & Sports Belle, Inc. 03A01-9903-CH-00106	Knox	Court of Appeals	12/14/99
Mark Matlock D/B/A MSM Development vs. Lenoir City Board of Zoning 03A01-9904-CV-00132	Loudon	Court of Appeals	12/14/99
03A01-9903-CH-00120 03A01-9903-CH-00120		Court of Appeals	12/13/99
Kim Nuchols (Walker) vs. Benny Nuchols 03A01-9901-GS-00007		Court of Appeals	12/10/99
03A01-9902-CH-00045 03A01-9902-CH-00045	Anderson	Court of Appeals	12/10/99
Continental Land Co. vs. Investment Properties Co. M1998-00431-COA-R3-CV	Marion	Court of Appeals	12/10/99
Slate vs. State M1998-00434-COA-R3-CV		Court of Appeals	12/10/99
White (Deerman) vs. White M1999-00005-COA-R3-CV Trial Court Judge: Allen W. Wallace	Cheatham	Court of Appeals	12/10/99
15th Jud. Dist. Unified Bar Assoc. vs. Glasgow M1996-00020-COA-R3-CV Trial Court Judge: C. K. Smith	Wilson	Court of Appeals	12/10/99
Davis vs. Dept. of Employment Security M1996-00021-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr. Trial Court Judge: Robert S. Brandt	Davidson	Court of Appeals	12/10/99
Davis vs. Dept. of Employment Security M1996-00021-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr. Trial Court Judge: Robert S. Brandt	Davidson	Court of Appeals	12/10/99
Moore vs. Moore M1999-01680-COA-R3-CV Trial Court Judge: Muriel Robinson	Davidson	Court of Appeals	12/10/99
Westside Health and Raquet Club, Inc., v. Jefferson Financial Services, Inc. E1998-00412-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge Charles D. Susano, Jr. Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Thomas R. Frierson Westside Health & Racquet Club, Inc. (“Westside”) filed this action against Jefferson Financial Services, Inc. (“ Jefferson”). Westside’s theory of its claim -- which theory was adopted by the trial court -- is that Westside’s transfer to Jefferson, over time, of some 495 installment sales contracts was, in each case, part and parcel of a usurious loan made by Jefferson to Westside, rather than a sale of the contract. The trial court awarded Westside damages of $68,519.71 for usurious interest, which was enhanced by a further award of pre-judgment interest pursuant to T.C.A. § 47-14-123 (1995)1. Jefferson appeals, raising several issues. The issue that we will focus on can be stated thusly: Does the Retail Installment Sales Act, T.C.A. § 47-11-101, et seq., (“ the Act”) operate to exempt the dealings between these parties from Tennessee’s usury statutes?	Hamblen	Court of Appeals	12/09/99
State of Tennessee, et al., Coretta Scott King, v. Lloyd Jowers W1999-00984-COA-R10-CV Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge W. Frank Crawford Trial Court Judge: Judge James F. Swearengen On December 1, 1999, the State of Tennessee on behalf of the appellants Judge James Beasley, Judge Robert T. Dwyer and Mark Glankler, filed a Rule 10 T.R.A.P. application for Page 1 extraordinary appeal. Specifically, the State sought to set aside the trial court’s order denying the State’s motion to quash the subpoenas served on the aforementioned appellants.		Court of Appeals	12/07/99
Randy Hill, v. Tennessee Board of Paroles, et al. M1997-00065-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr. Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. This appeal involves a state prisoner’s efforts to be paroled from an eight-year sentence for aggravated child abuse. After the Tennessee Board of Paroles declined to parole him, the prisoner filed a certiorari petition in the Chancery Court for Davidson County seeking judicial review of the Board’s decision. The trial court dismissed the petition on the grounds that it was not timely filed. We affirm the trial court in accordance with Tenn. Ct. App. R. 10(b).1	Davidson	Court of Appeals	12/03/99
Terry Compton v. Tennessee Department of Correction and Nashville Community Service Center M1997-00066-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr. Trial Court Judge: Judge Walter C. Kurtz This appeal involves a state prisoner’s efforts to obtain judicial review of a disciplinary action taken by the Nashville Community Service Center. After the Commissioner of Correction upheld the finding that he been drinking while on work release, the prisoner filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the Circuit Court for Davidson County. The trial court clerk refused to file the petition and required the prisoner to file a second petition because the pauper’s oath accompanying the first petition was not on the proper form and had not been notarized. Thereafter, the trial court granted the Department of Correction’s motion to dismiss the second petition because it was not timely filed. We have determined that the trial court clerk exceeded his authority when he declined to accept and file the prisoner’ petition and, therefore, that the trial court erred by dismissing the petition.	Davidson	Court of Appeals	12/03/99
Bellevue Properties, LLC., v. United Retail Incorporate, et al. M1999-01480-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. This case concerns the burden placed on a commercial landlord in mitigating damages caused by a commercial tenant’s abandonment of the leased property. Although our courts heretofore have required a landlord who suffers breach to use reasonable commercial methods to reduce his damages, this tenant-in-breach would read two additional duties into those reasonable commercial methods. First, the tenant would require that the abandoned property be marketed specially and apart from the landlord’s other commercial space inventory. Second, the landlord would be required to market the property at the original contract rental rather than its going market value. Under the facts as established in the record and according to the common law of this jurisdiction, we disagree.	Davidson	Court of Appeals	12/03/99
Robert Bean, Franklin Shaffer, David Autrey, Mack Roberts, Kevin Antle, Tom NIchols, Tammie P. Beasley, and Roxanne Luce, v. Ned Ray McWherter, Governor, State of Tennessee et al. M1999-01493-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Ben H. Cantrell Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. This is a constitutional challenge to an Act of the legislature regulating the possession and sale of animals. Owners, dealers, and licensed propagators of various wildlife species challenged the Act on grounds that it is vague, overbroad, and a burden on interstate commerce. The Chancery Court of Davidson County rejected the constitutional challenge. We affirm the decision on the vagueness and overbreadth charge. We think, however, that there are disputed facts bearing on the question of whether parts of the Act impermissibly burden interstate commerce. We, therefore, remand for further proceedings on that issue.	Davidson	Court of Appeals	12/03/99
Lori Ann Parr v. Miiddle Tennessee State University and Treyton Williams M1999-01442-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge Alan E. Highers Trial Court Judge: Judge James L. Weatherford Lori Ann Parr, proceeding pro se, has appealed the trial court’s dismissal of this invasion of privacy, breach of confidentiality, and civil rights intimidation via malicious harassment1 action that was brought against Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Treyton Williams (Williams) and other unnamed individuals. Based upon the following, we affirm the trial court’s dismissal.	Rutherford	Court of Appeals	12/03/99
Estate of Effie S. Hooker, Deceased and Harold E. Matheny, Administrator, C.T.A. of the Estate of Effie S. Hooker, Deceased, v. Suntrust Bank of Nashville, Bank of Nashville, N.A. et al. M1999-01479-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Russell Heldman This case concerns a claim filed by SunTrust Bank, Nashville, N.A.(hereinafter SunTrust) against the estate of Effie S. Hooker, the second wife of famed Middle Tennessee lawyer John J. Hooker, Sr. Mr. Hooker died on Christmas Eve of 1970, leaving the majority of his estate to his widow. According to the prevailing probate practice of the day, a portion of Mr. Hooker’s estate was placed in a trust for the benefit of Mrs. Hooker during her life, the remainder to the children of Mr. Hooker’s first marriage.	Williamson	Court of Appeals	12/03/99
Steven R. Linn, Susan D. Linn, David L. Linn, Wilma R. Linn, v. Vera E. Elrod, and Olin D. Elrod, v. Anna Lee Leinart Gross, Trustee of the Anne Lee Leinart Gross Trust 03A01-9903-CH-00080 Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Houston M. Goddard Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Billy Joe White The suit presently on appeal originated by Steven R. Linn and his son, David L. Linn, and their wives filing suit against Vera E. Elrod and Olin D. Elrod, seeking a mandatory injunction requiring removal of a fence erected upon property the Linns claim to be owned by them. Upon the filing of an answer and the counter-complaint by the Elrods and the adding of a third-party, Anna Lee Leinart Gross, as a Defendant, it resolved itself into a property line dispute.	Campbell	Court of Appeals	12/01/99
03A01-9810-CH-00320 03A01-9810-CH-00320	Hamilton	Court of Appeals	11/30/99
03A01-9812-CH-00415 03A01-9812-CH-00415		Court of Appeals	11/30/99
03A01-9901-CH-00070 03A01-9901-CH-00070		Court of Appeals	11/30/99
03A01-9902-CH-00041 03A01-9902-CH-00041	Hamilton	Court of Appeals	11/30/99