November 4, 2024
Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee Supreme Court has one case set for its November 6, 2024 docket in Jackson, Tennessee. The case will be heard at the Tennessee Supreme Court building in Jackson, beginning at 1:00 p.m. CDT. The case will be livestreamed to the TNCourts YouTube page at:…
November 4, 2024
Nashville, Tenn – Today the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered a change in the classification of contact information that attorneys provide to the Board of Professional Responsibility (Board). The change pertains to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9, Section 10.1, and will classify personal contact…
October 28, 2024
Nashville, Tenn. - Today the Tennessee Supreme Court issued an order allowing out-of-state lawyers to temporarily offer their services, free of charge, to residents affected by severe flooding in East Tennessee. The Order follows a joint request from the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services…
October 9, 2024
Nashville, Tenn- The Tennessee Supreme Court today held that a party could not recover attorney’s fees under the Tennessee Public Participation Act (“TPPA”) after the original lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed. The TPPA is Tennessee’s version of an anti-SLAPP statute. SLAPP stands for “…
October 4, 2024
Nashville, Tenn - The Tennessee Supreme Court has activated a limited disaster plan for all the trial courts in the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Judicial Districts following severe flooding that occurred September 26 and 27, 2024 in the wake of Hurricane Helene.The Court is granting a forty-…
September 26, 2024
Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee Supreme Court has one case set for its October 3, 2024 docket in Nashville, Tennessee. The case will be heard at the Tennessee Supreme Court building in Nashville, beginning at 9:00 a.m. CDT. The cases will be livestreamed to the TNCourts YouTube page at…
September 9, 2024
Nashville, Tenn- Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Mary L. Wagner received a warm welcome to the bench as family, friends, colleagues, elected officials, and the judiciary joined her in Germantown for a ceremonial investiture by Governor Bill Lee.“Justice Wagner is highly qualified and brings…
August 27, 2024
Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee Supreme Court today clarified that an alert from a trained drug-sniffing dog can be part of law enforcement’s probable cause for a search even though the dog cannot tell the difference between illegal marijuana and legal hemp.On February 16, 2020, law enforcement…
July 31, 2024
Nashville, Tenn- The Tennessee Supreme Court held today that a person who bought property near downtown Nashville, but failed to record the deed, could not gain full ownership of the property under a rule of law known as “adverse possession.” Under adverse possession, someone who may not own…
July 19, 2024
The Tennessee Supreme Court today held that attorneys must pay their professional privilege tax or face suspension, and if they are suspended, it takes effect the moment the Court enters the order of suspension.
Every year, attorneys licensed in the State of Tennessee are required by…