03C0l-9406-CR-002l3
03C0l-9406-CR-002l3

Roy Baines vs. Wilson County
M2000-00830-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Patricia J. Cottrell
Trial Court Judge: C. K. Smith
This appeal involves a suit for retaliatory discharge brought by the plaintiff against Wilson County, Wilson Emergency Management Agency and the plaintiff's supervisor. The plaintiff asserts that he was fired in retaliation for filing a workers' compensation claim. The trial court dismissed the plaintiff's claim because, it held, Wilson County and Wilson Emergency Management Agency were both immune pursuant to the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act. Further, it held that the plaintiff did not allege a prima facie case of retaliatory discharge against his supervisor because his supervisor was not his employer. We agree and, therefore, affirm the holdings of the trial court.

02A01-9410-CH-00230
02A01-9410-CH-00230
Trial Court Judge: D. J. Alissandratos

02A01-9410-CH-00230
02A01-9410-CH-00230
Trial Court Judge: D. J. Alissandratos

Joseph Carl Owens v. Truckstops of America, Truckstops of America, Inc. v. B. Michael Design, Inc. and Vitro Products, Inc. - Dissenting
01S01-9408-CV-00077
Authoring Judge: Justice Frank F. Drowota, III
Trial Court Judge: Judge Marietta M. Shipley

Based on the plaintiff's expectations at the time he filed this lawsuit in 1988, I agree with the majority that, in this transition case, it is reasonable to permit the plaintiff to recover from the defendants that he named in his complaint ("Truckstops") all of his damages that were proximately caused by Truckstops and that were not attributable to the plaintiff's own fault (if any). I also agree with the majority that it is fair in this transition case to permit Truckstops to receive contribution from the parties that were named by Truckstops as third-party defendants. However, I believe that the contribution should be based on the parties' respective percentages of fault, and that this method should apply not only to the negligence claims set forth in the thirdparty complaint, but to the strict products liability claim as well. If liability were thus linked to fault on each claim in the third-party complaint, each defendant (including the third-party defendants) would be liable only for the percentage of the plaintiff's damages that was caused by that defendant's fault, and the doctrine of joint and several liability would have no application.

02S01-9502-CR-00019
02S01-9502-CR-00019
Trial Court Judge: H. T. Lockard

03C01-9406-CR-00244
03C01-9406-CR-00244
Trial Court Judge: Ray L. Jenkins

03A01-9508-CH-00293
03A01-9508-CH-00293

03A01-9507-JV-00246
03A01-9507-JV-00246

03A01-9510-CV-00365
03A01-9510-CV-00365
Trial Court Judge: Inman

03A01-9510-CH-00357
03A01-9510-CH-00357
Trial Court Judge: Inman

01S01-9503-CC-00036
01S01-9503-CC-00036
Trial Court Judge: John A. Turnbull

01S01-9505-CR-00085
01S01-9505-CR-00085
Trial Court Judge: Seth W. Norman

State of Tennessee v. Billy D. Frasier - Dissenting
01S01-9503-CC-00036
Authoring Judge: Justice Lyle Reid
Trial Court Judge: Judge John A. Turnbull

I dissent from the majority's holding that a person arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant will be denied the right to consult with counsel prior to submitting to a breath test, regardless of the circumstances, and also from the majority's holidng that the defendant's right against self-incrimination would not be violated by the adminssion of his refusal to submit to the breath test as evidence of intoxication.

02S01-9406-CV-00032
02S01-9406-CV-00032

03S01-9503-CV-00029
03S01-9503-CV-00029
Trial Court Judge: W. Dale Young

03A01-9509-CH-00314
03A01-9509-CH-00314

03S01-9502-CV-00013
03S01-9502-CV-00013
Trial Court Judge: Roger E. Thayer

Joseph Carl Owens v. Truckstops of America, Truckstops of America, Inc. and B.P. America, Inc. v. B Michael Design, Inc. and Vitro Products, Inc.
01S01-9408-CV-00077
Authoring Judge: Justice Lyle Reid
Trial Court Judge: Judge Marietta M. Shipley

This interlocutory appeal presents for determination the principles of comparative fault applicable to the assessment of liability among joint tort feasors and the application of those principles to this transitional case, in which the cause of action accrued prior to the decision in McIntyre v. Balentine, 833 S.W.2d52 (Tenn. 1992). The decision of the Court of Appeals is modified and the case is remanded to the trial court.

Josie Gray, Administratrix of the Estate of Peggy M. Bush Deceased, v. Ford Motor Company and Springfield Surgery, P.C. and Sarjeet S. Kumar
01S01-9505-FD-00066
Authoring Judge: Justice Lyle Reid

Pursuant to Rule 23, Rules of the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Court has accepted for decision the following question of law certified by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals: Whether principles of comparative fault should apply in Tennessee medical malpractice actions so as to result in the apportionment of damages between the estate of a decedent who acted negligently in causing an initial injury and physician who negligently treated the decedent for that injury.

03A01-9508-CV-00252
03A01-9508-CV-00252

03A01-9508-CV-00256
03A01-9508-CV-00256

01C0l-9310-CC-00378
01C0l-9310-CC-00378
Trial Court Judge: W. Charles Lee

03C01-9310-CR-00181
03C01-9310-CR-00181

State vs. Willie Dockins
W1998-00354-CCA-R3-CD
Authoring Judge: Judge Thomas T. Woodall
Trial Court Judge: Joseph B. Brown