A snappy, aspirationally weekly newsletter from the lawyers at Horwitz Law, PLLC summarizing the week’s decisions from the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
May 17–May 23, 2025 After Defendants complain about their HOA refusing to let them erect a wooden security fence for their disabled son, HOA Officials file a “Civil Warrant Restraining Order”—which famously is not a thing—in Blount County General Sessions Court. Defendants petition to
A trial court's order permitting two plaintiffs to nonsuit their claims while a Tennessee Public Participation Act petition was pending but following an earlier Tennessee Court of Appeals reversal must be vacated, the Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled. The ruling is a precedent-setting
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
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,
When plaintiffs nonsuit (meaning voluntarily dismiss) their own claims, defendants are “prevailing parties” under statutory and contractual fee-shifting provisions, the Tennessee Supreme Court has held. The precedent-setting victory for Horwitz Law, PLLC client Vanessa Turner will affect thousands of cases in Tennessee each year
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
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
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
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
As reflected by the terms of a partial settlement agreement filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee today, Knox County will pay Horwitz Law, PLLC client Layla Soliz $71,500.00 for publishing a booking photograph in which she was
