There are 26 article(s) tagged Tennessee Supreme Court:

• March 2024

  • Local judge’s appointment to state supreme court confirmed

    Shelby County Circuit Court Division 7 Judge Mary Wagner, who was appointed to the court last month, was confirmed with a majority vote in the state House and a unanimous vote in the Senate. 

    By Aarron Fleming March 11, 2024

• February 2024

  • Memphis Judge Mary Wagner appointed to Tennessee Supreme Court

    Gov. Bill Lee has now appointed a majority of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s justices.

    By Ian Round February 01, 2024

• January 2024

  • Retired Tennessee Supreme Court Justice to mediate Freeman civil suit

    The first woman to lead the state’s highest court will oversee negotiations between lawyers for Nicole Freeman and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr., Chief Jailer Kirk Fields and Shelby County government. 

    By Aarron Fleming January 03, 2024

• November 2023

  • Law license reinstated for ADA who pleaded guilty to DUI

    An assistant district attorney who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence has had her law license reinstated. 

    By Julia Baker November 13, 2023

• September 2023

  • Native Memphian appointed to lead Tennessee’s highest court

    The court selected Holly Kirby to serve in the role for a two-year term, effective Sept. 1, the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts announced Aug. 31.

    By Aarron Fleming September 01, 2023

• January 2023

  • Portrait unveiled for first female Tennessee Supreme Court chief justice

    Prior to her 1996 appointment to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Justice Janice Holder was elected to Division II of the Circuit Court of Tennessee for the 30th Judicial District in Memphis in 1990.

    By Julia Baker January 18, 2023

• November 2022

  • State Supreme Court: Mandatory life sentences for juveniles ‘cruel and unusual punishment’

    “Not so long ago, it was commonplace for states to require juveniles convicted of homicide to serve sentences of over fifty years. Now, that practice has vanished. ... In the entirety of the nation, Tennessee stands alone.”

     

    By Ian Round November 21, 2022

• June 2022

  • Free legal clinic on wheels launches for TN clients

    The Tennessee Supreme Court has launched a free legal clinic on wheels called the Justice Bus. The blue sprinter van will mostly travel to rural areas where residents may not have internet access.

    By The Associated Press June 26, 2022

• May 2022

  • Conaway: Your money just got religion

    The Tennessee Supreme Court recently approved the Education Savings Account Act. You say education savings accounts, I say vouchers. You say tomato, I say tomato. Rotten tomato.

    By Dan Conaway May 28, 2022

  • Supreme Court approves school vouchers for Shelby, Davidson counties

    The law will allow families in Shelby and Davidson counties to send their children to private school with taxpayer dollars. The court’s ruling represents a major victory for Gov. Bill Lee and the school choice movement.

    By Ian Round May 18, 2022

• February 2022

  • Voucher law that applies only to Shelby County and Nashville returns to TN Supreme Court

    “We are primarily arguing that this is an infringement on the counties’ sovereignty,” former Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper said on behalf of MSCS and MNPS.

    By Ian Round February 24, 2022

  • Lee’s state Supreme Court appointee recuses in school voucher case

    In her recusal, Sarah Campbell cited a rule that says, “A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in any proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

    By Ian Round February 21, 2022

• November 2020

  • Tennessee takes overturned school voucher law to state’s highest court

    Metro Nashville and Shelby County challenged the law because it applies only to their communities without giving their local governments or voters a say.

    By Marta W. Aldrich November 25, 2020

  • Tennessee Supreme Court suspends jury trials until next year

    The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended all jury trials in the state because of a surge in COVID-19 cases. Trials are suspended Nov. 23 through Jan. 31. 

    By Yolanda Jones November 18, 2020

• September 2020

  • Attorneys for Pervis Payne seek to stop execution; claim he’s intellectually disabled

    The Shelby County man, convicted in the 1987 slayings of a Millington woman and her young daughter, is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3.

    By Yolanda Jones September 14, 2020

• August 2020

  • State Supreme Court OKs absentee August votes, but limits absentee for November

    On the eve of election day, the state's highest court rules the expanded access to absentee ballots for the August elections means all of those votes will be counted. But for November, absentee ballots will not be open to all who have general concerns for their health if they vote in person instead of by mail. There was a dissenting opinion on the court.

    By Bill Dries August 05, 2020

• July 2020

  • State Supreme Court weighs expansion of absentee voting

    The state's highest court heard the state's appeal of the recent expansion of mail-in absentee voting ordered last month by a Nashville Chancery Court. The state says absentee ballots are a privilege and not a right. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit argue that in the current pandemic, in-person voting is a choice for voters between their health and their right to vote.

    By Bill Dries July 30, 2020

• May 2020

  • Homeless ranks will grow when renters are evicted

    If America wants to contain the coronavirus, it is necessary to avoid creating a revolving door of aggravating conditions, such as homelessness. Displacing renters amid the coronavirus outbreak could intensify the transmission of the disease.

    By Heather Bornstein, Allen Heaston May 24, 2020

• March 2020

  • State supreme court extends court closures until April 30

    The Tennessee Supreme Court extended the suspension of all court cases until April 30 and has ordered judges and law enforcement to work together on a plan to get vulnerable inmates released from jail. 

    By Yolanda Jones March 25, 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