Chancellor sets hearing date for Memphis gun-control case
Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson will oversee the Memphis City Council’s lawsuit against the Shelby County Election Commission. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
The Memphis City Council’s lawsuit to vote for citywide gun-control measures in November pushes on as the September deadline for the ballot approaches.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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