CONTENTS
A R T I C L E S
Who’s there?
The parameters of police “knock and talk” tactics
By David Louis Raybin
The Inherent Unfairness of Arbitration Agreements in Nursing Home Admission Contracts
By Laura M. Owings and Mark N. Geller
Race and Murder in Knoxville, 1919: The Trials of Maurice Mays
By Donald F. Paine
N E W S &
I N F O R M A T I O N
Seats on Court of Judiciary open for nomination
New member of Judicial Evaluation Commission sought
Supreme Court sets disaster protocol for appellate courts
Mentoring program for teens in custody begins
Court strikes down California sentencing law
Court asks for more study on fee dispute arbitration, appellate mediation
New form for civil subpoena includes electronic discovery
Actions from the Board of Professional Responsibility
D E P A R T M E N T S President’s Perspective: The Plains of Abraham The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold But Seriously, Folks! Classified Advertising
Tennessee Bar Journal
Winning with class
By Larry Wilks
By J. Houston Gordon
By Geoffrey Robertson
Time to tell the truth about the Stella Awards
By Bill Haltom
March 2007
Volume 43, No. 3