July 15, 1999 Volume 5 -- Number 099 What follows is the case style or name, first paragraph, author's name, and the names of attorneys for the parties of each opinion released eletronically today to TBALink from Tennessee's three appellate courts. This Issue (IN THIS ORDER):   00 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court 00 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court Workers' Compensation Panel 00 New Document(s) or Proposed Rule(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court 02 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Appeals 00 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals 00 New Judicial Ethics Opinion(s) 00 New Formal Ethics Opinion(s) from the Board of Professional Responsibility   There are three ways for TBALink members to get the full-text versions of these opinions from the Web: Do a key word search in the Search Link area of TBALink.This option will allow you to view and save a plain text version of the opinion. *NEW* Browse the Opinion List area of TBALink. This option will allow you to download the original WordPerfect 6.0 version of the opinion. Click the URL at end of each Opinion paragraph below. This option will allow you to download the original WordPerfect 6.0 document. Lucian T. Pera Editor-in-Chief, TBALink FRANCIS KEITH FARRIS VS. RHONDA GAIL WATSON Court:TCA Attorneys: For Appellant For Appellee D. MITCHELL BRYANT RANDY G. ROGERS Cleveland, Tennessee Cleveland, Tennessee Judge:SUSANO First Paragraph: In this post-divorce proceeding, the trial court, acting on the parties' competing petitions, modified an earlier custody order. The decree now before us leaves the appellee, Rhonda Gail Watson, formerly Farris ("Mother"), as the sole custodian of the parties' minor child, Blake Farris, age 12; but orders that "each party shall have the child...for a period of one week, said weeks to be alternated." Francis Keith Farris ("Father") appeals, contending that the evidence preponderates against the trial court's decision not to award him sole custody of Blake. Father also complains that the trial court erred in not modifying his $90-per-week child support obligation. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/Farrisfk_opn.WP6 DARRELL O. GALDE VS. GEORGE D. KERITSIS Court:TCA Attorneys: George F. Legg, Anna F. Hinds, Knoxville, for Appellant. David S. Wigler, Knoxville, for Appellee. Judge:INMAN First Paragraph: A corporation styled SCC, Inc., was organized in May, 1992 by the parties. Each was issued a certificate for 500 shares of capital stock. The company prospered. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1993, gross receipts were three million dollars; two years later, its gross receipts were nearly six million dollars. Keritsis was the CEO, and he informed Galde, during the growth period, that the company should be sold. He obtained Galde's endorsed certificate to "free his hand" in negotiating a sale, and agreed to pay Galde 50 percent of the proceeds. Corporate minutes memorialized this transaction. But a sale was never consummated; rather, Keritsis looted SCC's treasury. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1993, he took $142,000.00; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1994, he took $177,000.00; the succeeding fiscal year he took $1,264,713.00. For the calendar year 1995 he reported taxable income from SCC, Inc. of $1,569,000.00. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/Galde_ca3.WP6 PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL! Feel free to forward this Opinion Flash on to anyone you know of with an e-mail address. GET A FULL-TEXT COPY OF AN OPINION! See the intrsuctions at the beginning of this edition of Opinion Flash. JOIN TBALink! While Opinion Flash is a free service of the Tennessee Bar Association, you must be a subscriber to TBALink, the premier Web site for Tennessee attorneys, in order to access the full-text of the opinions or enjoy many other features of TBALink. TBA members may join TBALink for just $50 per year. To join, go to: http://www.tba.org/join.html/ SUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH! Would you like to receive the TBALink Opinion-Flash free each day by e-mail? Anyone -- whether a TBA member or not is welcome to subscribe ... it's free! For the Plain Text Version: 1) Send an e-mail message to: Opinion-Flash@tba.org 2) In the SUBJECT of the message type: SUBSCRIBE 3) Leave the body of the message blank For the HTML Text Version: 1) Send an e-mail message to: Opinion-Flash@tba.org 2) In the SUBJECT of the message type: SUBSCRIBE HTML 3) Leave the body of the message blank UNSUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH? ... SURELY NOT! To STOP receiving TBALink Opinion-Flash: 1) Send an e-mail message to: Opinion-Flash@tba.org 2) In the SUBJECT of the message type: UNSUBSCRIBE 3) Leave the body of the message blank © Copyright 1999 Tennessee Bar Association