397 ABA Journal Tennessee articles.
A county clerk in Nashville is allowing illegal immigrants to marry after a state attorney general’s opinion last week that sided with a lawyer seeking to marry a man without…
May 27, 2008 12:53 PM CDT
Tennessee disciplinary authorities have censured a Tennessee judge for his conduct in cases involving children of illegal immigrants and children he thought might be in U.S. illegally.
Dickson County Juvenile…
May 19, 2008 4:30 PM CDT
A Tennessee lawyer who kept talking after a federal judge ordered him to keep quiet has been suspended from practice in the Eastern District of Tennessee for at least three…
Apr 30, 2008 1:41 PM CDT
When Tennessee Judge Hamilton Gayden presided over a case involving of stockholders in a class action against CVS/Caremark, he wanted to see someone benefit besides the lawyers. After all, only…
Apr 23, 2008 11:51 AM CDT
Legislation that would prohibit lawyers from advertising that they offer discounts for anyone charged with DUI has passed through the Tennessee Senate’s Finance, Ways and Means Committee.
Lawmakers are apparently…
Apr 23, 2008 11:32 AM CDT
A federal magistrate has recommended discipline for a Knoxville defense lawyer who continued to talk after a federal judge ordered him to keep quiet.
Magistrate Susan Kerr Lee recommended “appropriate…
Apr 10, 2008 1:23 PM CDT
A seemingly routine arraignment in a case alleging that the defendant had been operating a business without a license apparently became something of an ordeal earlier this week for a…
Mar 13, 2008 5:05 PM CDT
Several proposals are being touted that would help troubled borrowers and the lenders that gave them loans for their homes, often worth less now than the outstanding loan balance.
Falling…
Feb 22, 2008 5:24 PM CST
A burglar who broke into the basement of the Tennessee Supreme Court stole an employee’s debit card but apparently took no court files or computers.
The burglar also overturned a…
Jan 28, 2008 2:14 PM CST
A subsidiary of American International Group Inc. has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up environmental contamination at four industrial facilities that had been owned by Fruit of the…
Jan 10, 2008 6:51 PM CST
A former Tennessee judge is fighting the release of an audiotape that contains his lurid fantasies that sounded like someone being tortured.
Judge John Hagler resigned last month after the…
Jan 3, 2008 11:53 AM CST
A veteran prosecutor in Tennessee known nationally for her victims’ rights advocacy is shifting her energy to prosecuting Nashville’s worst juvenile offenders.
For 51-year-old Kathy Morante, the new direction in…
Jan 2, 2008 7:50 PM CST
The lawyer for a man accused of hiding a suspect in the murder of a carjacked couple claims in a motion for a change of venue that blogs helped “outrage…
Dec 4, 2007 12:08 PM CST
Although her request for custody was not granted, the Tennessee preacher’s widow who served less than a year in prison for killing her husband may have supervised visitation with her…
Sep 20, 2007 7:46 PM CDT
A federal judge has halted an upcoming execution in Tennessee, ruling that the state’s lethal injection procedure presents “a substantial risk of unnecessary pain.”
Judge Aleta A. Trauger of Nashville…
Sep 20, 2007 4:06 PM CDT
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