By Daniel A. Horwitz: Defending Criminal Contempt Cases in Tennessee[1] Under Tennessee law, courts may punish a person’s contempt of a court order as a criminal offense. Courts’ criminal contempt authority “is designed to preserve the power and vindicate the dignity and authority of the
By Daniel A. Horwitz: I. Introduction[1] In 2016, Tennessee enacted a new law criminalizing the “unlawful exposure” of certain sexually explicit, private images: a form of sexual abuse commonly known as “revenge porn.”[2] Tennessee’s “unlawful exposure” law supplemented a pre-existing criminal statute that prohibited
By Daniel A. Horwitz: Defending Against Malicious Prosecution Claims in Tennessee* Malicious prosecution is a civil tort claim that plaintiffs can bring against defendants who unsuccessfully initiated prior legal proceedings against them. “In order to establish the essential elements of malicious prosecution" claim that