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
February 22–March 7, 2025 After obtaining a Grandparent Visitation Order over Single Father’s objections, Grandparents file 23-count criminal contempt petition against Single Father, seek to have him jailed for 230 days based on asserted violations of the Grandparent Visitation Order. After a bench trial, former
January 25–February 21, 2025 Plaintiff sues his Former Attorney for legal malpractice. In response to Former Attorney’s motion for summary judgment (which had been delayed and continued already), Plaintiff’s Current Attorney commits much clearer legal malpractice, fails to timely respond to Former Attorney’s motion
January 11–24, 2025 Probate court for Shelby County (one of Tennessee’s two most reliably reversed judicial districts) enters a surprise, unexplained, sua sponte order dismissing a conservatorship action. Tennessee Court of Appeals: The trial court’s order is inexplicable, so even though a trial court speaks through its
December 28, 2024–January 10, 2025 After receiving an anonymous report of sexual assault that the anonymous reporter alleged was perpetrated by Pastor, the Southern Baptist Convention contacts Pastor’s employer both orally and in writing. Orally, an employee of the Southern Baptist Convention suggests that
December 21–December 27, 2024 Plaintiff seeks a declaration that provisions of her settlement agreement with Fellowship Bible Church of Williamson County that have the purpose or effect of concealing the details relating to a claim of child sexual abuse are unenforceable under Tenn. Code
December 7–December 20, 2024 Tennessee inmate files declaratory judgment action based on the Tennessee Constitution’s safe prisons clause, noting that he has been attacked once already, remains in danger, that the private prison operator that runs the prison has agreed to transfer him elsewhere,
November 30–December 6, 2024 A county regional planning commission denies an application to place a quarry in an agricultural zone because: (1) the quarry is not a permitted use, and (2) the relevant zoning scheme states that all nonpermitted uses are prohibited. The trial