March 26, 2025
Nashville, Tenn. – In a case filed in Hamilton County, the Tennessee Supreme Court today held that Tennessee law does not prohibit a private employer from firing an employee for exercising the right to petition the government granted under the Tennessee Constitution.The case began in 2021, during…
March 10, 2025
The Tennessee Supreme Court today upheld the suspension of a Shelby County attorney’s law license for violating the ethics rules for lawyers. The lawyer, Daryl A. Gray, was the subject of two complaints to the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, which enforces the ethics rules for…
March 7, 2025
The Tennessee Supreme Court held today in Robin M. McNabb v. Gregory H. Harrison, that Tennessee’s Constitution requires municipal judges to reside in the city where they will be assigned. Here, the candidate elected as Lenoir City Municipal Judge did not satisfy the constitutional residency…
March 6, 2025
Nashville, Tenn. – Today, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued an opinion in State v. William Rimmel III affirming Rimmel’s conviction for attempted aggravated assault but reversing his conviction for reckless endangerment with a handgun.Rimmel’s convictions arose from a 2018 road-rage incident on I-…
February 26, 2025
Nashville, Tenn. - Today, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued an opinion in Leah Gilliam v. David Gerregano, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Revenue et al., rejecting a First Amendment challenge to Tennessee’s personalized license plate program. Ordinarily, Tennessee license plates…
February 14, 2025
The Tennessee Supreme Court heard held court proceedings inside the Old Supreme Court Chamber at the Tennessee State Capitol for the first time in more than ten years February 12, 2025.“This is an historic occasion, a homecoming of sorts for our court,” said Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice…
February 4, 2025
Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee Supreme Court will hear oral arguments at two locations in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 12, 2025. In the morning, beginning at 10:30 a.m. CST, the Court will hear one case at the Tennessee Supreme Court building in Nashville. A second case will be…
January 22, 2025
Nashville, Tenn. – In an opinion released today, the Tennessee Supreme Court clarified that holding shareholders responsible for the actions of a corporation, known legally as “piercing the corporate veil,” requires three separate elements: control, wrongdoing, and causation. The Court also…
Tennessee Supreme Court Clarifies Interplay Between Health Care Liability Act and the Saving Statute
January 22, 2025
Nashville, Tenn.- Today the Tennessee Supreme Court held that a plaintiff, who did not refile a negligence lawsuit against Vanderbilt University Medical Center within the required one-year time frame, could not assert an extension based on the Health Care Liability Act.The case began when Plaintiff…
January 16, 2025
Nashville, Tenn- Today the Tennessee Supreme Court addressed public findings from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) claiming that the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners (TBLE) and the Tennessee Lawyers Assistance Program (TLAP), which operate under the authority of the Tennessee Supreme…