Updated: A legal opinion by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery says a proposal to make the Bible the official book of Tennessee would violate the state and federal constitutions.
A federal court filing by a hospital litigating a failed management agreement with another medical facility says its former lawyer was secretly communicating with the opposing party during negotiations of…
It appears that a former TV-show judge may be headed back to the slammer over a Tennessee juvenile-court outburst last year, in which he talked himself into an escalated five-day…
For the second time in less than three years, a growing Mississippi-based law firm with national and international offices has expanded its footprint in Nashville, Tennessee.
Two former football players at Vanderbilt University were found guilty of rape on Tuesday in the sexual assault of an unconscious woman that was recorded on a cellphone.
A defense lawyer in the rape trial of two former Vanderbilt University football players is blaming college culture for encouraging binge drinking and promiscuity.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states can prohibit same-sex marriage without violating the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.
The father and stepmother of a 5-year-old girl who died of water intoxication injuries in 2012 have been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a Tennessee judge.
For the first time, a federal appeals court has refused to recognize a constitution-based right of same-sex couples to marry, creating a circuit split and setting the issue up for…
A Tennessee lawyer initially accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex and taping the encounters has been sentenced to probation in a case that made the news despite a…
The Tennessean examined swipe-card records for judges in Nashville’s Davidson County and found that Chancery Judge Russell Perkins showed up more often than any of his colleagues.
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