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Plaintiffs argued that Tennessee’s signature verification process violates both their First Amendment and procedural due process rights. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 10:35 am by Rob McKinney
Daniels' call is based on Article VI, Section 3 of Tennessee's Constitution, which provides that the judges be elected by qualified voters of the state. [read post]
A group of US Republican senators and senators-elect on Saturday issued a joint statement ahead of the Electoral College certification process on January 6 to contest President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 8:56 am by Dani Selby
Supreme Court banned the execution of people with intellectual disability; Tennessee has, so far, failed to create a process for showing his diagnosis. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 3:00 am by John Day
 Article 6, Section 12 of the Tennessee Constitution requires that [a]ll writs and other process shall run in the name of the State of Tennessee and bear test and be signed by the respective clerks. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 9:31 am by Irene
In a case that illustrates the need for stricter laws to clean up the election process, nearly a dozen convicted felons have been charged with voter fraud for lying on registration forms during the 2008 presidential campaign. [read post]
Like many other states, Tennessee law recognizes the elective share of a surviving spouse to a decedent’s estate. [read post]
“Democracy depends on people’s ability to express their opinions to their elected representatives on issues they care about, and this unreasonable rule stood in the way of people fully participating in the democratic process. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 7:43 am by Joy Waltemath
By Pamela Wolf, J.D, In a surprising move on Monday, April 21, the UAW announced that it is withdrawing its NLRB objections challenging the controversial election held at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee in February. [read post]
That is precisely the kind of situation in which life-tenured judges construing a difficult-to-amend Constitution should be humble and careful about announcing new substantive due process or equal protection rights that limit accountable elected officials from sorting out these medical, social, and policy challenges. [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 4:11 pm
It is tragic that it took lives being lost in the process, but for the sake of people on Tennessee's death row; members of the legal system; elected officials; and the public at large, we look to the legislative study committee on the death penalty for a more just system in the future. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 1:41 pm by Bill Raftery
It confirms most of what came out in the testimony yesterday, including the three-part reelection process (incumbents must be reappointed by the Governor, reconfirmed by the legislature, and then approved in retention election). [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 6:37 pm by moderator
[argued] that the election process was incurably flawed to the extent that Appellants and the citizens of Shelby County were denied a free and equal election as required by Article I, Section V of the Tennessee Constitution. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 12:09 pm by Darren Linvill, Patrick Warren
As the country moves into a long delayed official transition process, a Biden presidency is just around the corner. [read post]
17 Feb 2014, 1:00 pm by Tennessee Employment Law Letter
Politicians, businesses, and business-friendly organizations for months held meetings and press conferences throughout Tennessee to raise opposition to the UAW’s presence in the Chattanooga plant, meetings that intensified in the days preceding the election. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 11:42 am by Jeff Gamso
  And Iowa where the high court actually said that it was unconstitutional to put an arbitrary cap in the fees that appointed appellate counsel could earn.Now we turn to Tennessee where, as Brandon Gee writes in the Tennessean, the Tennessee Supreme Court is considering a switch from underfunded public defense offices to providing indigent defense by "a highway contract-style bidding process. [read post]