May 18, 2000
Volume 6 -- Number 074

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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
01 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Appeals
01 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals
00 New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Attorney General (PDF format)
00 New Judicial Ethics Opinion(s)
00 New Formal Ethics Opinion(s) from the Board of Professional Responsibility
 

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Editor-in-Chief, TBALink

						
REPOST FROM YESTERDAY'S OPINION FLASH
DOUGLAS BLAIR v. TRACEY M. NORRIS, ET EL.

Court:TCA

Attorneys:  

Jerrold L. Becker, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Douglas
Blair

J. Elaine Burke and Ricky A. W. Curtis, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the
appellees, Tracey M. Norris and Michael W. Norris

Judge: GODDARD

First Paragraph:

This is a suit wherein the Plaintiff Douglas Blair seeks a
determination that he is the father of Dillon Michael Norris, born
June 4, 1993, while the child's mother, Tracey M. Norris, was married
to and living with Michael W. Norris.  The Trial Court found that the
suit was not timely filed as required by T.C.A. 36-2-304(b)(2)(A). 
Mr. Blair's appeal insists that under the doctrine of equitable
estoppel the Trial Court's dismissal of his action was error.  We
affirm.

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/blaird.wpd





STATE OF TENNESSEE V. CHARLES EDDIE HARTMAN

Court:TCCA

Attorneys: 

Richard McGee and John G. Oliva, Nashville, Tennessee, for the
appellant, Charles Eddie Hartman.
                     
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Michael E. Moore,
Solicitor General; Amy L. Tarkington, Assistant Attorney General;
Joseph D. Baugh, Jr., District Attorney General Pro Tem; and Arthur F.
Bieber, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State
of Tennessee.

Judge: RILEY

First Paragraph:

The defendant, Charles Eddie Hartman, appeals his death sentence
imposed by a Montgomery County jury at a resentencing hearing as
punishment for felony first degree murder.  This resentencing hearing
was mandated by the Supreme Court of Tennessee as a result of the
defendant's post-conviction proceeding.

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/hartmance.wpd

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