Recent News About Tennessee Supreme Court
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - A Tennessee woman's lawsuit over an explosion of an Eastman Chemical Company steam pipe has failed, as an appeals court has ruled that it is basically an asbestos case.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - A doctor can’t be compelled to testify about the performance of a nurse midwife before he arrived to deliver a baby who suffered hypoxic brain injury, Tennessee’s highest court ruled, rejecting arguments by trial lawyers that as a supervising physician he should be ordered to offer his expert opinion on whether the nurse met the standard of care.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - The Tennessee Supreme Court rejected the City of Knoxville’s attempt to collect a 5% tax on streaming video services, delivering a death blow to attempts by private lawyers to tap a new fee stream by recruiting municipalities in the state to sue Netflix, Hulu and other video providers.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - A Tennessee judge who ordered harsh sanctions against an opioid manufacturer and later boasted about it on Facebook should have recused himself for the appearance of bias, an appeals court ruled, reversing the sanctions and ordering the judge off the case.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – It’s tough news for a Tennessee couple who tried suing a plastic surgeon who ended up not being certified and allegedly delivered a “barbaric” procedure.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - Tennessee’s high court ruled that state law caps noneconomic damages at $750,000 for all plaintiffs, following up on a 2020 decision that found the damages cap is constitutional.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - The City of Memphis lost one round of a fight with Elvis Presley Enterprises over a proposed 6,200-seat arena at the Graceland theme park that the owner of the Memphis Grizzlies basketball team said would illegally compete with its own stadium.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - Equipment manufacturers whose products were combined with asbestos-containing components after they left the factory aren’t liable for failing to warn workers of the risk of cancer, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled, interpreting for the first time a disputed aspect of a state product liability statute.
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NASHVILLE (Legal Newsline) – An Overton County, Tennessee trial court’s order allowing the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit to interview non-party health care providers without the presence of plaintiff’s attorney was overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The Supreme Court of Tennessee has found the statutory cap on noneconomic damages in the Tennessee Code doesn't violate the right to a trial by jury, the separation of powers, or the equal protection provisions of the state constitution.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – The fair report privilege does not apply to a one-on-one conversation between a detective and reporter, the Supreme Court of Tennessee ruled in a case against a newspaper over allegations of defamation.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Tennessee has affirmed a trial court's ruling that granted an interlocutory appeal to a property owner in an unlawful detainer case.
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NASHVILLE (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Tennessee ruled in a Dec. 20 opinion that, based on the wording and circumstances surrounding the accident, an agreement signed by a rehabilitation center patient who fell getting into a van operated by a third-party medical transportation company does not prohibit the patient from suing the transport company.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsine) – The Supreme Court of Tennessee at Knoxville has upheld the Chancery Court for Knox County’s ruling that a North Carolina attorney wasn’t incapacitated from responding or defending against a disciplinary complaint.
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Two judges who have been leaders in the struggle to rescue lives and communities affected by substance abuse were among the honorees at the Tennessee Association of Recovery Court Professionals’ 14th Annual Recovery Court Conference, held recently in Murfreesboro.
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Washington County General Sessions and Juvenile Court Judge Robert Lincoln has been named the 2018 recipient of the McCain-Abernathy Award.
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For the first time in over 20 years, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ordered an increase in the amount paid to lawyers representing indigent parties in criminal and child welfare cases.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – The Tennessee Supreme Court has remanded a health care liability case back to the trial court after ruling that a woman whose infant died days after birth can’t add Jackson-Madison County General Hospital District as a new defendant.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Nov. 17 that in personal injury cases, “reasonable charges” for medical treatment are what the medical providers charge, not what the insurance company ends up paying.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a medical authorization sent pre-lawsuit doesn’t have to be Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant to be valid.
