JURIST

MAY 20, 2021

Tennessee’s governor has signed a slate of bills in recent days that civil rights groups say will have a discriminatory effect on transgender people. No healthcare prescribers in Tennessee currently offer such treatment to prepubescent children.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that outlawed abortions based on certain reasons, such as a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome or the race or gender of the fetus. The court also blocked the state’s six-week abortion ban. It is, in fact, just the opposite.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

Several new Tennessee state laws take effect on January 1. Civil legal remedies are available for workers who are denied these reasonable accommodations. Tennessee tobacco laws will also change on the first day of the year.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2021

The Tennessee Senate passed SB0228 Bill on Monday, a move which bans participation of transgender athletes from female designated sports. The Bill, introduced earlier this year, passed with a vote of 27-6 and amends Title 49 of the Tennessee Code. The vast majority of transgender students are not elite athletes.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday reinstated a 48-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions in Tennessee. The US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee struck down the requirement in 2020, declaring it unconstitutional.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2021

Tennessee filed an emergency request on Monday asking the US Supreme Court to reinstate a 48-hour mandatory waiting period for abortions pending appeal. ” He blocked enforcement of the law, stating: Defendants have failed to show that the challenged mandatory waiting period protects fetal life or the health of women in Tennessee. .”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee sued the Biden Administration Wednesday in response to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate issued for federal contractors. The post Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee file lawsuit challenging vaccine mandate for federal contractors appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of a transgender boy prevented by Tennessee law from joining the boys’ golf team at his high school. 228 is one of a number of bills in Tennessee that limits transgender rights. The suit, filed by Lambda Legal and the ACLU, alleges that S.B. The suit challenges S.B.

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Day on Torts

MAY 22, 2024

The Tennessee Public Protection Act applies to legal malpractice claims in Tennessee in certain circumstances. After over ten years of unsuccessful litigation on the trust, plaintiff filed this legal malpractice case against defendants. In Cartwright v. Hendrix , No. W2022-01627-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2021

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed two major criminal justice reform bills into law Monday. The Alternatives to Incarceration Act , which replaces the Tennessee Community Act of 1985, places a cap on the duration of probation. It is meant to help local governments find alternatives to prison.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Tennessee Justice Programs provides 15 hours of on-demand continuing legal action for Tennessee lawyers. Penny White, Joe Riley, and I speak on a variety of subjects of interest to Tennessee trial lawyers who do civil trial work. Reduced rates available for those who purchase multiple courses.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

The Attorneys Generals (AGs) of Tennessee and Kentucky filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging part of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. Tennessee claims to have lost more than 100,000 jobs, causing large budget shortfalls. Of that money, Kentucky and Tennessee will likely receive about $2.4 billion and $3.7

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JURIST

JULY 13, 2021

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee has temporarily blocked a Tennessee law that requires businesses to post signs alerting patrons if they allow transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with that individual’s gender identity.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

19, 2022), plaintiff county filed this legal malpractice suit against defendant attorney who had represented the county in an underlying action filed by a former county employee. Applying the discovery rule to determine when a legal malpractice statute of limitations began to run can be complicated. In Coffee County v. Spining , No.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2021

The post Advocacy group files federal suit against Tennessee governor for transgender bathroom restrictions appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

MARCH 30, 2021

Hines , summarily reversing a lower court decision that had ordered a new trial for a Tennessee death row inmate. The post Supreme Court reverses new trial order for Tennessee death row inmate appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. The US Supreme Court released an unsigned opinion Monday in Mays v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Tennessee is not only the Supreme Court’s first oral argument of the 2021-22 term, but it is also the first time that states have asked the court to weigh in on how they should share an interstate aquifer. The key legal issue in Mississippi v. Share Mississippi v. Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2023

A Tennessee grand jury Thursday indicted five former Memphis Police Officers for their involvement in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols. The post Tennessee grand jury charges 5 former police officers in traffic stop death of Tyre Nichols appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Day on Torts

MAY 17, 2024

Proof related to potential damages alone are insufficient to sustain a legal malpractice claim in Tennessee. April 10, 2024) (memorandum opinion), plaintiff filed a legal malpractice claim against defendant attorney. Vaughan , No. E2023-00930-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Defendant moved for summary judgment.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When appealing a trial court’s order dismissing or refusing to dismiss a case under the Tennessee Public Protection Act (TPPA), the appeal “must be filed within thirty days of the entry of that order.”. This is an important case, as it provides further interpretation of the TPPA, a relatively new statute in Tennessee. In Laferney v.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When a litigant has filed a motion to dismiss pursuant to the Tennessee Public Participation Act (TPPA), that motion should be analyzed under the provisions of the TPPA rather than under the traditional Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 12 analysis. In Reiss v. Rock Creek Construction, Inc. , quoting Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even under the discovery rule, however, plaintiffs cannot simply wait “until [they] know the full extent of their damages, the exact nature of their legal claims, or all the facts affecting the merits of their claims.” (internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted). Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2023

Judge Thomas Parker, a judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Friday ruled that Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act (AEA) is unconstitutional. The District Attorney and Tennessee Attorney General’s Office have not yet commented on the ruling.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A new report from the Sycamore Institute has found that Tennessee’s ability-to-pay measures throughout its court fee system are implemented inconsistently throughout the state, with some counties choosing to waive the fees 100 percent of the time, while others (Hamblen, Coffee, Humphreys, Obion and Hancock) waived the same fees less than 0.5

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2023

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Tennessee law limiting drag shows on constitutional grounds. Federal district judge Thomas Parker granted an injunction on the ground that the Tennessee law is vague and overly broad. However, many of these events are held off school grounds and with the support of their parents.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court reviews very few cases in a given year. There are other types of cases that the Court is required to hear.) Given the case selection criteria in discretionary review matters and the types of appeal-as-of-right cases, each opinion is highly likely to materially impact Tennessee law.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Where plaintiff real estate professional brought an action for defamation and false light based on an online review written by defendant, defendant moved to dismiss the action pursuant to the Tennessee Public Participation Act (TPPA). In Charles v. McQueen , No. M2021-00878-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 4490980 (Tenn. citing Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

MAY 13, 2022

Where plaintiff submitted no expert proof to support his legal malpractice claim, summary judgment for defendant was affirmed. Plaintiff thereafter filed this pro se legal malpractice claim against defendant. In the instant case, defendant moved for summary judgment on the legal malpractice claim, which the trial court granted.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2022

Where plaintiff had filed complaints with the Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR) complaining of the same allegations that allegedly supported her legal malpractice claim, and those BPR complaints were filed more than one year before the legal malpractice suit was filed, summary judgment based on the statute of limitations was affirmed.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Juliet, Tennessee police last year are accusing the officers involved of acting recklessly, using excessive force and violating civil rights, and are suing the city and its police department for $50 million, Craig Shoup reports for The Tennesean. The family of a man who was fatally shot by Mt. The lawsuit, which names Mt. Juliet Police Sgt.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2024

It reasoned that the parents lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing, because they had not alleged either that they had been, or were likely to be, denied information about their children under the county’s guidelines. A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., threw out the parents’ lawsuit.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 25, 2021

Where plaintiff filed a legal malpractice action in federal court within the one-year statute of limitations, but then waited more than one year after dismissal of that federal case to file this claim for legal malpractice, dismissal based on the statute of limitations was affirmed. In Tolson v. Herbison , No.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 22, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert refused to testify due to no fault of plaintiff or plaintiff’s counsel, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that the trial court should have allowed plaintiff to secure a substitute expert. In Blackburn v. McLean , No. M2021-00417-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 3225397 (Tenn.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Toub, a 3L at Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, was the 2022… Editor's Note: The following short story by Frank H.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In a 2-1 decision on Friday, the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request to revive a Tennessee law requiring a 48-hour waiting period before abortions while the court hears an appeal of the district court’s decision that ruled the law unconstitutional. The 2015 law mandated that women make two trips to an abortion clinic.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border. The legal question in the case is whether the equitable apportionment doctrine applies.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The plaintiffs, who filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, are a coalition of GOP-run states. The post Coalition of 20 states file lawsuit to overturn Biden directive on gender identity appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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