A Tennessee judge who told the parents of a baby boy that they had to name their son Martin instead of Messiah because only Jesus Christ had “earned” the latter…
A Tennessee court on Wednesday reversed a magistrate’s change of name for an 8-month-old baby named Messiah by his parents, finding that it was not the lower court’s job to…
Music festivals found to be part of a farmer’s “right clever marketing operation” aren’t protected from nuisance suits under Tennessee’s right-to-farm law, the state supreme court has ruled.
Parents who were feuding over the last name for their 7-month-old son, Messiah, took their dispute to a Tennessee court and wound up with a new first name for the…
A Tennessee lawyer has filed a federal products liability lawsuit against Apple Inc., contending that the company is strictly liable for selling “unreasonably dangerous or defective” electronic devices that lack…
Disbarred lawyer John Threadgill of Knoxville, Tenn., conceded on Monday that a federal jury had found him guilty of tax evasion last year, but he maintained he…
A Tennessee judge is facing a legal ethics case for allegedly making a personal fact-gathering visit to a party’s home before ruling in a post-divorce child-custody case.
A former Tennessee criminal court judge who was convicted last year of lying to cover up a prescription drug conspiracy that involved some defendants in the…
A federal judge in Knoxville, Tenn., is scheduled to hear next week a motion to dismiss a complaint filed by government meeting protesters over a no-costume policy that they say…
Indictments from nearly 900 cases in the Nashville area are under review after officials discovered a man who served as grand jury chair in 2011 is a convicted felon.
A lawyer suspended 60 days for the rude remarks he made to a Tennessee judge during a 2008 medical malpractice trial plans to appeal the legal ethics penalty.
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