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20 Apr 2012, 6:40 am
Tennessee House HB 3691 Requires House and Senate speakers appoint all nine members of the judicial evaluation commission since the judicial council no longer exists. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 8:29 am
Extending current merit selection past 2012 The current merit selection system, which relies on a judicial nominating commission (for initial appointment) and a judicial performance evaluation commission (for retention election-year review), is set to sunset June 2012. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 6:41 am
Tennessee House HB 2537 Extends sunset date for the judicial performance evaluation commission to June 30, 2013. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 12:19 pm
HB 1702 / SB 646 Requires judges selected via merit selection system receive 75% yes in retention election. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 6:29 am
The Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a fourth judicial selection plan with yesterday’s passage of SJR 710 as amended. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 8:16 am
Tennessee House Finance, Ways & Means Committee, General Subcommittee HJR 753 (Constitutional Amendment) Provides all appellate judges are to be initially selected via merit-based gubernatorial appointment from a panel of qualified candidates submitted by a nominating commission. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 1:41 pm
Last week a Tennessee House committee approved a constitutional amendment to specifically enshrine merit selection in the state’s constitution. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 7:27 am
Tennessee House Finance, Ways & Means Committee, General Subcommittee HJR 753 (Constitutional Amendment) Provides all appellate judges are to be initially selected via merit-based gubernatorial appointment from a panel of qualified candidates submitted by a nominating commission. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 10:17 am
There has been copious amounts written on this blog and in the Gavel to Gavel publication on Tennessee’s merit selection system (here’s an overview). [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 8:59 am
Tennessee House Judiciary, General Subcommittee HB 2432 Requires drug testing of elected officials. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 11:59 am
HB 3282 Allows members of the judicial nominating commission to serve successive terms. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 6:37 pm
Shelby County Election Commission, Associated Press] [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 1:01 pm
Section 2 of the bill goes on to require the Tennessee Ethics Commission “develop and implement a system for drug testing all persons who are elected to public office”, again citing 50-9-106(a)(1). [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 6:00 am
Finally, Tennessee is facing the possibility of legislative ending of their merit selection system by default. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 3:31 pm
Federal Election Commission, 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 31 (2004) The Surprisingly Easy Case for Disclosure of Contributions and Expenditures Funding Sham Issue Advocacy, 3 Election Law Journal 251 (2004) A Critical Guide to Bush v. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:33 am
Ethics Commission Slaps Developer with Maximum Campaign Fine California Proposed California Regulations Spell Out Gift-Reporting Requirements for Elected Officials Massachusetts DiMasi Friend Admits Breaking Massachusetts Lobbying Law New Mexico GOP Files Lawsuit against Newly Imposed Campaign Contribution Limits in New Mexico Tennessee Tennessee Lawmaker Arrested on DUI, Gun Charges Vermont Judge: Republican Governors Association violated Vermont campaign finance… [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 8:25 am
Unlike Pennsylvania HB 1815, it leaves the commission membership entirely up to the legislature and makes no mention of whether judges are to be retained via retention election or otherwise. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 3:05 pm
Elmcroft of Hendersonville, 14 No. 5 Westlaw Journal Nursing Home 4, Westlaw Journal Nursing Home September 9, 2011 The Tennessee Court of Appeals has upheld a $250,000 jury verdict against an assisted living facility for an elderly resident's falls, finding the claims sound in ordinary negligence and not medical malpractice. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 7:10 am
The Tennessean and the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal report that a Tennessee state chancery court judge this week denied a motion to reconsider his decision handed down in May dismissing challenges (other than an open-meeting law challenge) to the Rutherford County Regional Planning Commission's approval of building plans for a controversial mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 7:10 am
The Tennessean and the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal report that a Tennessee state chancery court judge this week denied a motion to reconsider his decision handed down in May dismissing challenges (other than an open-meeting law challenge) to the Rutherford County Regional Planning Commission's approval of building plans for a controversial mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [read post]
