There are 32 article(s) tagged Tennessee Supreme Court:

• March 2020

  • Emergency state Supreme Court petition seeks inmate releases

    An emergency petition filed with the Tennessee Supreme Court seeks the release of numbers of inmates from local jails and prisons as COVID-19 outbreaks begin to appear across the state.

    By Marc Perrusquia March 25, 2020

  • Coronavirus daily blog, March 13: Grizzlies to pay game-night employees

    • Germantown cancels programming until end of March
    • Bartlett changes municipal services
    • Municipal school districts to close through March 27
    • First Shelby County coronavirus patient released from hospital
    • Weekend looms large for restaurateurs

     

    Confirmed cases

    Tennessee

    26

    Shelby County

    2

    By The Daily Memphian Staff March 20, 2020

  • State Supreme Court suspends in-person court proceedings

    Coronavirus suspends most court activity, affects prison visitation.

    By Yolanda Jones March 13, 2020

• February 2020

  • Tennessee Supreme Court upholds caps on personal injury damages

    In a 3-2 decision, the court upheld a 2011 state law capping damages juries can award in personal injury lawsuits, reversing rulings in two lower courts and drawing criticism from a Democratic Memphis lawmaker.

    By Sam Stockard February 29, 2020

• October 2019

  • Tennessee Supreme Court says no appeal of Confederate monuments removal

    Without comment in a one-sentence court order, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it will not hear an appeal of the removal of Confederate monuments from two city parks in 2017. The city says the decision sets the stage for the sale of the monuments. The leader of Memphis Greenspace says permanent changes to Memphis Park are poised to begin.

    By Bill Dries October 16, 2019

• May 2019

  • Tennessee Supreme Court disbars Memphis lawyer

    The Tennessee Supreme Court has disbarred Memphis attorney Paul James Springer.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 25, 2019

• February 2019

  • Shelby County expungement practices questioned by Tennessee Supreme Court

    The state Supreme Court agreed to give the Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk's office 30 days to draft a policy on how it handles expungement filings after his staff failed to handle a case properly.

    By Yolanda Jones February 18, 2019