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| State vs. Barry L. Speck
02S01-9601-CR-00001
Originating Judge:L. Terry Lafferty |
Supreme Court | 04/28/97 | ||
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Court of Appeals | 04/28/97 | ||
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Court of Appeals | 04/28/97 | ||
| State vs. Henry Eugene Hodges
01S01-9505-CR-00080
Originating Judge:Walter C. Kurtz |
Davidson County | Supreme Court | 04/28/97 | |
| State vs. Jimmie Allen
02C01-9509-CR-00286
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Shelby County | Court of Criminal Appeals | 04/28/97 | |
| State vs. Henry Eugene Hodges
01S01-9505-CR-00080
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Supreme Court | 04/28/97 | ||
| State vs. Rickey Smith
02C01-9511-CR-00342
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Shelby County | Court of Criminal Appeals | 04/28/97 | |
| State vs. Henry Eugene Hodges
01S01-9505-CR-00080
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Davidson County | Supreme Court | 04/28/97 | |
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Court of Appeals | 04/28/97 | ||
| Part Upon State v. Roger Dale Hill, No. 01C01-9508-Cc-00267 (Tenn. Crim. App. June
02C01-9701-CC-00017
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Lake County | Court of Criminal Appeals | 04/28/97 | |
| David Dean vs. Home Depot USA, Inc.
M1999-02313-COA-R3-CV
Plaintiff, David Dean, was a 68 year old frequent patron of Home Depot. On April 27, 1997, Mr. Dean completed his shopping at the store, paid the cashier and, upon departing, appeared to have set off the electric theft detection alarm. An employee of Home Depot stopped Mr. Dean and asked him to step back into the store while employees located the source of whatever triggered the alarm. Mr. Dean was neither arrested nor charged and ultimately left the store. He brought suit against Home Depot for false imprisonment resulting in a jury verdict in his favor for $37,593.00. On Motion for a New Trial, asking in the alternative for remittitur, the trial court reduced the judgment by $3,000.00. Defendant appealed. Upon consideration of the record, we suggest an increased remittitur and remand the case giving Mr. Dean 15 days to accept the suggested remittitur.
Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain
Originating Judge:Carol L. Soloman |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 04/27/97 | |
| State vs. Jeremiah Leavy
W2001-03031-CCA-R3-PC
A Tipton County jury convicted the Petitioner of first degree murder, felony murder, aggravated robbery, and especially aggravated kidnapping. The trial court merged the two murder convictions and imposed a single life sentence with the possibility of parole. On direct appeal, this Court affirmed the conviction, and the Tennessee Supreme Court denied the Defendant's application for permission to appeal. The Petitioner then sought post-conviction relief in the trial court, alleging that he was denied effective assistance of counsel. Following a hearing, the post-conviction court dismissed the petition. The Petitioner filed a motion to reconsider, which the trial court denied, and the Petitioner appealed. Finding no error, we affirm the trial court's dismissal of the petition.
Authoring Judge: Judge Robert W. Wedemeyer
Originating Judge:Joseph H. Walker, III |
Tipton County | Court of Criminal Appeals | 04/27/97 | |
| Mary W. Scott v. Kenny Pipe & Supply, Inc., et al.
01S01-9607-CV-00140
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. _ 5-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The only issue raised in this appeal is whether the evidence supports the trial court's award of permanent partial disability. We conclude that it does and affirm the decision. The plaintiff, Mary W. Scott, a then fifty-six-year-old clerical worker, injured herself in September 1992 when she fell because the back of her secretarial chair came off. She came under the care of Dr. Greg Lanford, a neurosurgeon. He hospitalized her for a few days and then treated her conservatively. She returned to work for several months and then left her job, but there is no explanation in the record as to the cause of her termination. Dr. Lanford had treated the plaintiff before for the same condition. In fact, he operated on her back in October 1991 to attempt to repair degenerative changes in discs C3 through C7. Following that surgery, the plaintiff returned to work. The employer's argument is straightforward. The plaintiff's condition was no worse after the fall than it was before the fall. Dr. Lanford found the plaintiff to be in about the same condition after the fall as she was before the fall. When asked to compare the plaintiff's condition on July 3, 1992 - the last time he saw her before her work injury - to her condition on August 3, 1993 - the last time he saw her after the work injury - the doctor responded: "I really don't see a lot of difference in the two visits." Dr. Lanford concluded that she had a 14% impairment before the fall and a 14% impairment after the fall. -2-
Authoring Judge: Robert S. Brandt, Senior Judge
Originating Judge:Hon. Marietta M. Shipley, |
Scott County | Workers Compensation Panel | 04/25/97 | |
| 01A01-9702-CH-00052
01A01-9702-CH-00052
Originating Judge:Carol L. Mccoy |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | |
| Wilda G. Mccarty v. Fast Food Merchandisers, et al.
01S01-9510-CH-00186
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with TENN. CODE ANN. _ 5-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme Court of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The plaintiff sustained a work-related injury to her right arm, and the trial court found she suffered a 33% vocational disability to the right arm as a result of the injury or 16.5% to the body as a whole. See Thompson v. Leon Russell Enterprises, 834 S.W.2d 927 (Tenn. 1992). The plaintiff had been injured in a non-work-related car accident in 1978, and she had injured her back in a work-related accident in January of 1991. The injury to the plaintiff's back resulted in a court-approved workers' compensation award of 36.5% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole. The injury to the plaintiff's right arm, the January 1991 injury to the plaintiff's back and the injury received in the 1978 automobile accident combined resulted in the plaintiff being found permanently and totally disabled. The trial court held under the provisions of T.C.A. _ 5-6-28(a), the plaintiff was to be compensated by the employer for the 16.5% whole body disability as a result of the injury to her arm on July 1991 and by the Second Injury Fund for 83.5% whole body disability. Because of the plaintiff's low rate of pay, the trial court, applying T.C.A. _ 5-6-27(4)(A), found the plaintiff to be entitled to receive payment for 55 weeks rather than 4 weeks, the permanent total disability benefits normally applicable. The trial judge assessed all of this extra 15 weeks to the Second Injury Fund. Our standard of review is de novo on the record, accompanied by the presumption that the trial court's findings of fact are correct, unless the preponderance of the evidence is otherwise. T.C.A. _ 5-6-225(e)(2). Where the issue is one of law, our standard of review is de novo without a presumption of correctness. Bradshaw v. Old Republic Ins. Co., 922 S.W.2d 53, 53 (Tenn. 1996). 2
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge John K. Byers
Originating Judge:Hon. Billy Joe White, |
Fentress County | Workers Compensation Panel | 04/25/97 | |
| Carolyn F. Humphries v. KFC USA, Inc .
O1S01-9607-CH-00147
This case is before the Court upon the entire record, including the order of referral to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel, and the Panel's Memorandum Opinion setting forth its findings of fact and conclusions of law, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge James L. Weatherford
Originating Judge:Hon. Robert S. Brandt, |
Davidson County | Workers Compensation Panel | 04/25/97 | |
| Price vs. TN. Civil Service Comm.
01A01-9508-CH-00336
Originating Judge:Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr. |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | |
| Carolyn F. Humphries v. KFC USA, Inc .
01S01-9607-CH-00147
This case is before the Court upon the entire record, including the order of referral to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel, and the Panel's Memorandum Opinion setting forth its findings of fact and conclusions of law, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge James L. Weatherford
Originating Judge:Hon. Robert S. Brandt, |
Davidson County | Workers Compensation Panel | 04/25/97 | |
| Bondy vs. Martin
03A01-9609-JV-00310
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Monroe County | Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | |
| Smith, et. al. vs. The Castner-Knott Dry Goods
01A01-9512-CV-00554
Originating Judge:William C. Koch |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | |
| Bondy vs. Martin
03A01-9609-JV-00310
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Monroe County | Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | |
| Baptist Hospital, East , et. al. vs. TN. Dept. of Health, et. al.
01A01-9610-BC-00465
Originating Judge:Samuel L. Lewis |
Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | ||
| Profill Development vs. Dills, Comm
01A01-9607-CH-00326
Originating Judge:Robert S. Brandt |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | |
| Lemm vs. Adams
01A01-9607-CH-00330
Originating Judge:Ellen Hobbs Lyle |
Davidson County | Court of Appeals | 04/25/97 | |
| Transportation Insurance Co., et al. v. Clayton B. Rees
01S01-9606-CV-00123
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. _ 5-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and conclusions of law. This case presents the question of whether an employee's possession or business use of a portable telephone converts an otherwise noncompensable injury into a compensable one. We conclude that it does not and affirm the trial court's denial of benefits. The employee, Clayton Rees, had been employed by Rock Harbor Marina in Nashville for only four weeks when he was injured while driving to work. He was a commission boat salesman. Rock Harbor paid Rees a draw against future commissions, but at the time of the injury, he had yet to sell a boat for Rock Harbor. Rees lived in Tullahoma, about equal distance between Nashville where he worked and Chattanooga where his fianc_ lived. On the morning of March 12, 1994, while commuting to work from Tullahoma to Nashville in his own truck, Rees was injured in a vehicle collision on US 231 just north of Shelbyville. A drunk driver caused the collision. To be covered by workers' compensation, the injury must arise out of and in the course and scope of employment. Tenn. Code Ann. _ 5-6-13. An injury sustained en route to or from work is not considered in the course of employment. Lollar v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 767 S.W.2d 143, 144 (Tenn. 1989). There are exceptions to this rule, such as when the employee is on the employer's premises, Id. 15, but none of the exceptions apply here. Rees seeks to avoid this firm and long-standing rule because he had a portable telephone with him on his commute and, according to him, was -2-
Authoring Judge: Robert S. Brandt, Senior Judge
Originating Judge:Hon. J. Russell Heldman, |
Davidson County | Workers Compensation Panel | 04/25/97 |