01C01-9601-CC-00003
01C01-9601-CC-00003
Trial Court Judge: Joe B. Jones

01C01-9602-CR-00053
01C01-9602-CR-00053
Trial Court Judge: Ann Lacy Johns

01C01-9602-CR-00058
01C01-9602-CR-00058
Trial Court Judge: Thomas H. Shriver

Dept. of Children's Services vs. D.S.
M2000-02380-COA-R3-JV
Authoring Judge: Sr. Judge William H. Inman
Trial Court Judge: Betty Adams Green
The parental rights of the petitioner (Mother) to her child , "R.", born January 29, 1997 during her Mother's incarceration, were terminated upon a finding that statutory grounds therefore were proved by clear and convincing evidence. Weighing very carefully the Mother's constitutional right to care for her child, on the one hand, and the best interests of the child, on the other, we vacate the judgment and remand for further proceedings.

Monica R. Williams, v. Claude Williams
02A01-9604-CV-00088
Authoring Judge: Judge David R. Farmer

Claude D. Williams (Husband) appeals from the trial court’s award of rehabilitative alimony to be paid to Monica R. Williams (Wife) at $500 per month for eighteen months. This was a marriage of approximately five years duration. Wife was a junior in college attending school full-time and working two part-time jobs. She testified that her net income was $880 and her expenses $1,507 per month. Husband has an engineering degree and earns approximately $38,000 annually. No children were born to the marriage. Wife was granted the divorce on the grounds of inappropriate marital conduct.

01C01-9512-CC-00405
01C01-9512-CC-00405

01A01-9512-CV-00548
01A01-9512-CV-00548
Trial Court Judge: Henry Denmark Bell

01A01-9607-CH-00298
01A01-9607-CH-00298
Trial Court Judge: Cornelia A. Clark

01A01-9606-CV-00284
01A01-9606-CV-00284
Trial Court Judge: Barbara N. Haynes

X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX

X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX

X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX

03C01-9511-CC-00373
03C01-9511-CC-00373

03C01-9506-CR-00173
03C01-9506-CR-00173
Trial Court Judge: Mayo L. Mashburn

03C01-9605-CC-00198
03C01-9605-CC-00198
Trial Court Judge: Rex Henry Ogle

02C01-9510-CR-00301
02C01-9510-CR-00301
Trial Court Judge: Joseph B. Dailey

03C01-9601-CC-00038
03C01-9601-CC-00038
Trial Court Judge: Frank L. Slaughter

03C01-9511-CC-00365
03C01-9511-CC-00365

03C01-9606-CC-00210
03C01-9606-CC-00210
Trial Court Judge: Ben W. Hooper, II

03C01-9606-CC-00211
03C01-9606-CC-00211

03C01-9602-CC-00078
03C01-9602-CC-00078

03C01-9508-CC-00243
03C01-9508-CC-00243
Trial Court Judge: William R. Holt

03C01-9512-CC-00412
03C01-9512-CC-00412

03C01-9601-CR-00021
03C01-9601-CR-00021

Jerry T. Matheny v. Insurance Co. of North America
02S01-9604-CH-00034
Authoring Judge: Joe C. Loser, Jr., Special Judge
Trial Court Judge: Hon. J. Steven Stafford,
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court inaccordance with Tenn. Code Ann. section 5-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The issue in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in not enlarging an award, pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. section 5-6- 241(a)(2). As discussed below, the panel has concluded the judgment should be affirmed. The injury in question occurred on September 5, 1992 to the claimant's neck. The claimant was treated by a physician who assigned a permanent impairment rating of eight percent to the body. The claimant returned to work at a wage equal to or greater than the wage he was receiving at the time of the injury and was awarded permanent partial disability benefits on the basis of two and one-half times the impairment rating, or twenty percent to the body as a whole, paid in a lump sum. The award was made on March 22, 1994. On May 9, 1994, the claimant suffered another injury to his neck at work. From that injury, superimposed upon two previous injuries, including the one in question, he was found to be one hundred percent permanently disabled and awarded benefits accordingly. Because of the disability resulting from the most recent injury, the claimant is unable to return to work. The claimant contends he is therefore entitled to have the previous award enlarged. For injuries arising after August 1, 1992, by Tenn. Code Ann. section 5-6-241(a)(1), in cases where an injured worker is entitled to permanent partial disability benefits to the body as a whole and the pre-injury employer returns the employee to employment at a wage equal to or greater than the wage the employee was receiving at the time of the injury, the maximum permanent partial disability award the employee may receive istwo and one-half times the medical impairment rating. By Tenn. Code Ann. section 5-6- 241(a)(2), if the injured worker thereafter loses his or her pre-injury employment, the court may, upon proper application made within one year of the employee's loss of employment, and if such loss of employment is within four hundred weeks of the day the employee returned to work, enlarge the award to a maximum of six times such impairment rating, allowing the employer credit for permanent partial disability benefits already paid for the injury. The only reasonable interpretation of subsection (2) is that if the injured worker's later loss of employment is causally related to the injury for which an award has been made, the trial judge has the discretion to enlarge the award, if the application is timely made. Any other interpretation would be inconsistent with the long standing rule that an employer takes the employee as 2