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November 17, 2015
Judge Karen R. Williams, who retired last year from Shelby County Circuit Court, was honored earlier this month with a portrait unveiling at the courthouse.Approximately 150 state and federal judges, along with attorneys, friends, and family gathered in the south hall of the courthouse to celebrate…
November 12, 2015
From WCYB
GREENEVILLE, Tenn -About a thousand students from across the region got a rare glimpse of the Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals proceedings in Greeneville.
The Tennessee court heard four cases before the student body at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center.
The program…
November 12, 2015
Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Cornelia A. Clark was the keynote speaker at the Vision 2020’s Conference when the group met recently in Nashville for their Vision 2020 Fifth National CongressJustice Clark noted that she was “energized and uplifted by the goals of the organization and the…
November 12, 2015
The Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments is now accepting applications for the Circuit Court judge vacancy in the 30th Judicial District – Shelby County. The vacancy was created by the death earlier this year of the Honorable D’Army Bailey.Any interested applicant must be a licensed…
November 10, 2015
A suit filed by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville against the local Board of Zoning Appeals can continue after a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling granting Nashville standing in the case.The dispute stems from a Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) decision in 2012 that overturned the zoning…
November 6, 2015
The Tennessee Supreme Court has adopted a revised Rule 46, which will help pave the way for electronic filing of cases in the state appellate courts.E-filing will allow parties to submit documents via a web-based system, instead of delivering papers manually to the clerk’s offices. E-filing is…
November 5, 2015
The Tennessee Supreme Court has held that a Chattanooga hospital’s lawsuit against a TennCare managed care organization (MCO) involves a challenge to certain TennCare regulations, meaning the hospital must first give the Bureau of TennCare the opportunity to rule on its own regulations before the…
November 4, 2015
In deference to funeral arrangements for the late Sen. Fred Thompson, the Supreme Court-appointed Indigent Representation Task Force has pushed back the start time of their Friday meeting to noon.The Indigent Representation Task Force has been charged with reviewing practices regarding how…
October 30, 2015
The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed a trial court ruling denying Bridgestone entities’ request to dismiss a case because of lost evidence and a request for summary judgment in the case in which a woman’s car was totaled in an accident after it appeared that a tire may have failed.The plaintiff…
October 29, 2015
Circuit Court Judge Philip E. Smith was honored by the Women’s Political Collaborative of Tennessee as one of four men to receive the 2015 Good Guys Award. The Good Guys Award is awarded annually by the Women’s Political Collaborative to honor men in the community who have worked to engage women…
October 28, 2015
The Supreme Court will travel from Knoxville to Memphis and points in between next week, swearing in the state’s newest attorneys and hearing cases in West Tennessee.Each summer and fall, following the announcement of the results of the bar exam, the Supreme Court welcomes new attorneys to the…
October 27, 2015
The Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments met today in Nashville to consider nine applicants for the vacancy on the Tennessee Supreme Court created by the retirement last month of Justice Gary R. Wade.After holding a public hearing and interviews of all nine applicants, the council chose…
October 26, 2015
The Tennessee Supreme Court has returned to a summary judgment standard consistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in an opinion released today in a Memphis health care liability case.Summary judgment is a tool used in lawsuits that allows one or both parties to elicit a ruling from the…
October 21, 2015
The Tennessee Supreme Court has appointed judges, attorneys, and others with ties to the criminal justice system in the state to the Indigent Representation Task Force to review practices regarding how attorneys are compensated for work with defendants who are unable to afford legal counsel.The…
October 21, 2015
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has appointed Jill Bartee Ayers of Clarksville as Circuit Court Judge for Division IV of the 19th Judicial District, a position created by the Tennessee General Assembly earlier this year. The 19th Judicial District serves Montgomery and Robertson counties. We are…
October 21, 2015
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled today that a void judgment may be challenged at any time, but a trial court need not grant relief from a void judgment if exceptional circumstances exist. A void judgment is one that never had any legal meaning or authority. Exceptional circumstances exist if: 1)…
October 20, 2015
The Supreme Court has set aside the decision of a Hamilton County trial court that had ruled a state law putting a cap on certain personal injury damages to be unconstitutional.The case is a negligence lawsuit by Donald and Beverly Clark against several divisions of AT&T and one of its…
October 14, 2015
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals visited the University of Tennessee at Martin campus recently to hear cases before UT Martin students as well as area high school students.The court convened in the Boling University Center’s Watkins Auditorium as the students heard oral arguments from the…
October 13, 2015
Judge John Everett Williams, of Huntingdon, received the Distinguished Criminal Justice Alumni Award from the University of Tennessee at Martin Department of Behavioral Sciences during a luncheon Sept. 29. Williams is the first person to receive this honor.The award, sponsored by the UT Martin…
October 12, 2015
The Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments will consider nine applicants when it meets October 27 in Nashville to select nominees for the Tennessee Supreme Court vacancy.The vacancy was created by the retirement of Justice Gary R. Wade on September 8.The applicants are:…