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Hoover Inc., v. Metro Board of Zoning Appeals 01A01-9506-CH-00277 Authoring Judge: Judge Samuel L. Lewis Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Robert S. Brandt This is an appeal by petitioner/appellant, Hoover Inc. ("Hoover"), from an order of the chancery court affirming the Metropolitan Board of Zoning Appeal's decision to deny Hoover's application for a conditional use permit.	Williamson	Court of Appeals	01/05/95
Gary Castelli vs Joy Castelli E2004-02997-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Herschel P. Franks Trial Court Judge: L. Marie Williams The Trial Court granted the parties a divorce, identified, valued and divided the marital property. The husband appeals the division of marital property as being inequitable. We affirm, as modified.	Hamilton	Court of Appeals	10/15/94
Branch vs. Thompson M1998-00511-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge W. Frank Crawford In this case, the minor children of the parties have been declared dependent and neglected in juvenile court, and custody was awarded to Mother. Subsequently, the parties were divorced in circuit court, and Mother was awarded custody and Father was ordered to pay child support. Mother filed a petition in circuit court to hold Father in contempt for his failure to pay child support, and Father filed a cross petition seeking, among other things, to change custody. At the conclusion of an evidentiary hearing, the circuit court awarded custody of the children to Father. Mother has appealed, and we vacate the order changing custody because of lack of subject matter jurisdiction.	Robertson	Court of Appeals	08/24/94
William Fowler, as surviving parent of David Fowler, dec. vs. Ralph Davenport and Jason Richards E2000-02509-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Herschel P. Franks Trial Court Judge: G. Richard Johnson The Trial Court granted defendants summary judgment on the grounds plaintiff's action was time-barred. We reverse and remand.	Washington	Court of Appeals	08/12/94
Lola Taylor v. James Taylor M1999-02398-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr. Trial Court Judge: Royce Taylor This appeal arises from the dissolution of a four-year marriage. The wife sought a divorce in the Circuit Court for Rutherford County because of the husband's chronic drunkenness, non-support, and threats of violence. Following a bench trial, the court granted the wife a divorce on the ground of inappropriate marital conduct. The trial court also divided the martial estate, gave the wife custody of the parties' four-year-old daughter, and directed the husband to pay child support. On this appeal, the husband asserts that the trial court erred in its classification and division of the marital property, that the trial court awarded an excessive amount of child support, and that the trial court erred by denying his request to place a portion of his child support in an educational trust fund. For her part, the wife requests an additional award to defray her legal expenses for this appeal. We conclude that the trial court (1) correctly classified and divided the marital estate, (2) properly sequestered a portion of the husband's assets to assure the timely and regular payment of his child support, and (3) properly declined to establish an educational trust fund for the child. We also conclude that the trial court erred by failing to direct the trial court clerk to return the remainder of the sequestered funds to the husband when his child support obligation ceased. In addition, we decline to award the wife her legal expenses for this appeal or to find that this appeal was frivolous.	Rutherford	Court of Appeals	06/11/94
Sarah Beth Clingan Overstreet v. Shoney's, Inc. 01A01-9612-CV-00566 Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr. Trial Court Judge: Judge John A. Turnbull This appeal involves a freakish accident in which a shard from a broken dinner plate caused a restaurant patron to lose the sight in her left eye. The patron and her husband filed suit against the waitress who dropped the plate and the restaurant in the Circuit Court for Putnam County seeking damages for her injuries and for his loss of consortium. Following a three-day trial, the jury awarded the patron $2,013,000. On this appeal, the restaurant takes issue with several of the trial court’s evidentiary rulings, the trial court’s verdict form, and the trial court’s refusal to grant a remittitur. We affirm the judgment.	Putnam	Court of Appeals	06/04/94
E1999-00235-C0A-R3-CV E1999-00235-C0A-R3-CV Trial Court Judge: Thomas W. Graham	Rhea	Court of Appeals	05/14/94
Adkins vs. Keck 03A01-9804-CV-00141		Court of Appeals	03/17/94
03A01-9506-CV-00205 03A01-9506-CV-00205 Trial Court Judge: Inman		Court of Appeals	01/28/94
Arthur Kerr vs. Christina Kerr M2000-01730-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell Trial Court Judge: Carol A. Catalano The trial court granted the parties a divorce, divided the marital property, and ordered child support, but not alimony. On appeal, the wife argues that the trial court erred in its division of marital property and in its failure to award her rehabilitative alimony. We affirm the trial court.	Robertson	Court of Appeals	12/27/93
In re: The Adoption of female child, E.N.R. 01A01-9806-CH-00316		Court of Appeals	12/21/93
Paris vs. The City of Lebanon Personnel Review Bd. 01A01-9702-CH-00054		Court of Appeals	10/12/93
Jacqueline Fields vs. Vincent Fifer 02A01-9804-JV-00118	Shelby	Court of Appeals	08/18/93
Clinton Lien v. Nashville and Davidson County M2002-00721-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain Trial Court Judge: Walter C. Kurtz Chief Emmett H. Turner, of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Police Department, discharged Appellant from employment as a police officer for certain violations of various rules and regulations. The officer appealed his discharge and, after a hearing, the Administrative Law Judge reduced his penalty to a thirty day suspension. The appeal was further heard before the Civil Service Commission, which reversed the ALJ and upheld the dismissal of the officer. The Chancery Court of Davidson County upheld the action of the Civil Service Commission. The officer appeals, and we affirm the judgment of the trial court.	Davidson	Court of Appeals	08/16/93
01A01-9503-Ch-00117 01A01-9503-Ch-00117	Cheatham	Court of Appeals	07/15/93
Burress vs. Sanders M1999-00210-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Herschel P. Franks Trial Court Judge: Thomas W. Graham	Sequatchie	Court of Appeals	05/16/93
Melissa Kornblee (Jaramillo) vs. Kevin Richard Kornblee M2000-00379-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain Trial Court Judge: Thomas E. Gray In this post-divorce proceeding, Melissa Danise Foster Kornblee (Jaramillo) appeals the trial court's actions in ordering mental health counseling and treatment of the parties' minor children by a court appointed professional, declining to allow her to relocate with the minor children to Wyoming, allowing Father unsupervised visitation with the children, and awarding Father attorney's fees in defending her motion to suspend unsupervised visitation. We affirm the trial court.	Sumner	Court of Appeals	03/26/93
Metro Construction Co., Inc. vs. Cogun Industries, Inc. 02A01-9608-CH-00207 Trial Court Judge: C. Neal Small	Shelby	Court of Appeals	01/28/93
03A01-9509-CH-OO301 03A01-9509-CH-OO301 Trial Court Judge: Inman		Court of Appeals	01/19/93
Tiffany Senn v. Romando Haynes M2002-01519-COA-R3-JV Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain Trial Court Judge: Donna A. Scott Tiffany T. Senn (Williams) appeals the action of the Juvenile Court of Rutherford County, changing the primary residential custody of her minor child from Tiffany Senn to the biological father of the child, Romando Haynes. We affirm the action of the trial court.	Rutherford	Court of Appeals	08/29/92
Leighann M. Gullett v. Michael J. Hopkins M2003-02086-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain Trial Court Judge: John W. Rollins This is a post-divorce change of custody proceeding wherein the trial court found no substantial change of circumstances and denied the Petition. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.	Coffee	Court of Appeals	06/29/92
Sneed (Ford) vs. Sneed 01A01-9612-CH-00542 Trial Court Judge: William B. Cain	Maury	Court of Appeals	06/25/92
DeShayne Neal v. Jerry Neal M2003-02703-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain Trial Court Judge: Gerald L. Ewell, Sr. This is an appeal from the chancery court order refusing to modify the parties' divorce decree and permanent parenting plan. Mother filed a Petition to Modify, and Father filed an Answer and Counter Petition also requesting modification. The Chancellor dismissed both the Petition and Counter Petition finding that there had not been sufficient change in circumstances since the initial entry of the divorce decree to justify modification. Upon review of the Permanent Parenting Plan and Final Decree of the Chancery Court, we find that this Permanent Parenting Plan and the judge's approval of such plan do not meet the requirements of Tennessee law. As such, the Permanent Parenting Plan is vacated, and the case is remanded to the trial court.	Fentress	Court of Appeals	01/31/92
Eddie Dobbins vs. George Dobbins 02A01-9710-PB-00246 Trial Court Judge: Donn Southern	Shelby	Court of Appeals	01/28/92
Traci Sorrells vs. Donald Lee Sorrells E1999-01658-COA-R3-CV Authoring Judge: Judge Houston M. Goddard Trial Court Judge: C. Van Deacon	Bradley	Court of Appeals	11/15/91