Intermediate Scrutiny Blog

May 10–May 16, 2025 Widely Disliked Tennessee Lawyer serves as plaintiff in a Tennessee Adult Protection Act (elder abuse) case.  The case involves two competing wills: a 2016 will that leaves Decedent’s estate to a local animal shelter, and a 2020 will that leaves Decedent’s estate to an Acquaintance.  Only the 2016 will is (so

May 3–May 9, 2025 Dog Owners own two dogs.  Those dogs previously attacked an employee of the facility where Dog Owners boarded them.  So Dog Owners are told that their dogs cannot be boarded at that facility anymore, and they switch boarding facilities.  Sadly, while boarded at the new facility (where the dogs spend

April 26–May 2, 2025 Woman is on the receiving end of a series of orders of protection for stalking—and making threatening and unhinged posts directed at—a member of the rock band Mötley Crüe and his family.  The orders broadly prohibit Woman from contacting the Petitioner, either directly or indirectly.  Woman nevertheless violates the orders of protection

April 19–April 25, 2025 Plaintiffs file suit in 2021 related to a 2017 property sale contract between their LLC and Defendants.  The Plaintiffs amend their complaint in 2023 but do not add the LLC as a party.  In 2024, the Plaintiffs move for leave to file a second amended complaint that would clarify that both

March 22–April 18, 2025 One of Tennessee’s most-reversed trial court judges is assigned a procedurally complex de novo General Sessions appeal of a granted stalking-based order of protection.  Halfway through the trial on the stalker’s de novo appeal to Circuit Court, the stalker nonsuits his appeal.  The nonsuit triggers a rule that the General

March 8–March 21, 2025 Neighbors hate one another.  After doing some research, Neighbor #1 posts (as part of a larger statement, much of which was uncontestedly true): “The criminal check revealed that [Neighbor #2] has a criminal record in Texas. [Neighbor #2] moved to Knoxville from Texas after she was arrested for ‘Deadly Conduct’