Tennessee

Judge Tests Positive For Coke, Gets Bond Revoked

The judge is heading to jail.

Tennessee Judge Should Really Leave Parenting To The Parents

If something like this happens again, we need to mandate parenting CLEs for judges.

Tennessee’s House Of Representatives Violated The First Amendment So They Wouldn’t Have To Hear Complaints About Children Being Gunned Down

With representatives like these, who needs enemies?

Tennessee Judge Rules That Law Banning Drag Shows Is Constitutionally BS

I wonder if they will be banning children from attending Tyler Perry shows?

The ABA Decides That Courtrooms Shouldn’t Still Have Confederate Flags In Them. Also, There Are Courtrooms With Confederate Flags Still In Them.

The ABA has not yet decided if it is okay for courthouses to have The Punisher skull flags displayed proudly during vigilante violence cases.

Morning Docket: 06.02.22

* The proposed solution to school shootings? Stronger doors. We are in the worst timeline. [News4Jax] * New York aims to stop post-crime shaming. Good on them. [WKTV] * Tennessee protesters reconsider the ease of gun access. Makes sense after having 17 mass shootings in one week. [WPLN] * It may be time for a refresher on Heller. Who better to do it than the clerks involved? [NYT] * Choice Havens: Blue cities in Red states could keep abortion access available. [Axios]

Morning Docket: 05.23.22

* Redditor asks if it's okay to show up to their summer gig a different race than what they indicated on their application. Nobody really reads the fine print... right? [Reddit] * Arkansas's governor just signed off on one hell of a "welp, too bad" with this anti-abortion law. [The Guardian] * A change to Tennessee's school zone brings some hope to adults left behind. [Axios] * Biglaw has been quite hush-hush about the Alito leak. No need to capitalize on current events with all these billables I guess. [Law.com] * Totally not a coup supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks the real racism is blaming white supremacy for mass shootings. [Huff Post]

Morning Docket: 03.31.22

* Texan student who was threatened with being given a failing grade for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance earns a lot of lunch money. Gotta love the 1st Amendment. [Chron] * Facebook and Apple were so deferential to cops that they gave sensitive information to kids pretending to be them. What happened to two-factor authentication? [Dudes Code] * Loan company hit with a million-dollar fine for misleading its clients about loan forgiveness. Stop playing with people’s money! [Business Insider] * Pentagon drops a 700+ list of places named after members of the Confederacy they're considering renaming. About time we stopped handing out participation trophies to the pro-slavery people. [Military] * Tennessee is trying to overturn Obergefell. See what you’ve started now, Texas? [LBGTQNation]

Morning Docket: 03.23.22

> * People are salty that Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks Roe v. Wade is settled law. In other news, Marshall v. Madison is back on the chopping block. [The Guardian] * Go, cousin! Black folks have been overwhelmingly supportive of KBJ — go figure. [The Cut] * Some of you may die: Tennessee reins in the effectiveness of federal vaccine mandates. [JD Supra] * Doesn’t work in theory: The folks trying their damndest to make something stick may ask KBJ her thoughts on the Yale “Free Speech” debacle. I wonder if she’ll pull an ACB and refuse to speak on hypotheticals? [New York Post] * “In bird culture, this is considered a dick move”: a member of Teddy Cruz’s cohort gives him a little shame for how he went about yesterday’s confirmation hearing. [SF Gate]

Morning Docket: 01.21.22

* California has the opportunity to modify or do away with their three strikes law. I hope they take it. [Voice of San Diego] * Tennessee creates law intended to penalize kids who make threats online. The first person to get locked up over a TikTok is never gonna live that down. [WKRN] * The three officers who did nothing as their coworker killed a man with his knee will also face trial soon.  [NPR] * Electronic sniffing dogs are being used to detect child pornography. This is going to end up in a Criminal Procedure casebook isn’t it? [ABC] * Green thumbs and orange jumpsuits: man sentenced to two years for smuggling succulents. [LAist]

Party Buses Take A Hit In Tennessee

The wheels on the bus go 'Hey man, no forreal, I really love you man. You're a good bro. Pass the Fireball.' all through the town.

Morning Docket: 12.02.21

* The first action under Tennessee's anti-CRT law is accusing MLK of being un-American. Who would have dreamed of this? [Insider] * A clean conscience: Law that protects donors from civil and criminal liability finds it easier to donate female sanitary products. [AP News] * Yale student who claims they were blackballed ends up getting the prestigious scholarship anyway. [Yale Daily News] * For a lot of people, the current push against abortion rights doesn't make sense. Here's a look for how forcing birth will impact Mississippians trying to make cents. [NYT] * A thinner blue line: A new North Carolina law makes it so that police have to report their co-workers within 3 days if they see them using excessive force. Sounds like this should have been a duh rule, but I'm glad it's a law now. [WITN]

Judge Jails Children For Just Standing There… Menacingly

I heard she tried to give the Garratt v. Dailey kid 25 to life.

Morning Docket: 07.02.21

* A Tennessee gamer is suing so that he can keep his vanity "69PWNDU" license plate. Hope he isn't a legal noob... [Yahoo News] * A Texas lawyer has been disbarred for allegedly taking his client's food stamps and purportedly faking the client's signature. [Texas Lawyer] * The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that required charities to disclose their largest donors. [Washington Post] * Attorney General Garland has issued a memorandum pausing federal executions. [Fox News] * The Tour de France has withdrawn a lawsuit against a spectator who allegedly caused a crash. They deserve the yellow jersey for how fast they withdrew that litigation... [Guardian]

Tennessee Signs NIL Law

The Volunteer State's law contains a broad exclusion that will allow a university to prohibit an athlete's involvement in NIL activities 'that are reasonably considered to be in conflict with the values of the institution.'