"The majority of the counts of criminal contempt" on which a Williamson County trial court judge convicted must be reversed, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The Tennessee Court of Appeals also ordered that "we vacate the sentences imposed by the trial court
Williamson County Chancery Court Judge Deanna Johnson's order dismissing Horwitz Law, PLLC client Melissa Salmon's complaint against Fellowship Bible Church of Williamson County must be reversed, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The case arose out of an important new law—Tennessee Code Annotated
Hardeman County Chancery Court Judge William C. Cole's order dismissing Horwitz Law, PLLC client Benjamin Douglas's lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Correction must be reversed, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The lawsuit seeks injunctive and declaratory relief based on the safe
A trial court's order denying Horwitz Law, PLLC clients Linda Ward and Caledonia Forest's Tennessee Public Participation Act Petition to Dismiss must be reversed and remanded, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The ruling sets multiple important precedents under the Tennessee Public Participation Act,
Three Aldermen who sued their constituents for petitioning them about local issues must pay their constituents' appellate attorney's fees, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The appeal arose from a trial court’s January 23, 2024 order dismissing a “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation” (a
"A trial court’s personal opinion is not a basis for restricting a person’s constitutional right to free speech," the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The ruling is a major and precedent-setting First Amendment victory for Horwitz Law, PLLC client Michael Malone. "There is
Fatal "ambiguities [in the trial court's] orders cannot support a conviction of contempt[,]" and "[t]he determination that the order which was allegedly violated lacked specificity and was ambiguous requires a reversal of the convictions of contempt," the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The
A trial court's order denying Horwitz Law, PLLC clients Joshua and Leah Debity's Tennessee Public Participation Act Petition to Dismiss must be vacated, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The trial court's "incorporated oral ruling does not indicate why the trial court dismissed
A trial court's order incarcerating and denying bail pending appeal to a defendant who is appealing his contempt convictions must be vacated, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The ruling arises under Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 8—a rarely utilized appellate rule governing