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If you have forgotten your password or need to obtain a password, you can look it up on-line at http://www.tba.org/getpassword.mgi Here's how you can obtain full-text version. We recommend you download the Opinions to your computer and then open them from there. Click the URL at end of each Opinion paragraph below. This should give you the option to download the original document. If not, you may need to right-click on the URL to get the option to save the file to your computer. 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. Browse the Opinion List area of TBALink. This option will allow you to download the original version of the opinion. Howard H. Vogel Knoxville, Tennessee Editor-in-Chief, TBALink JANEY FLURI and DAVID FLURI v. FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, DAWN TAYLOR, MELINDA BLUE, M.D., and VISTA RADIOLOGY, P.C. Court: TCA Attorneys: Luis C. Bustamante, and Robert L. Vance, Knoxville, Tennessee, for appellants. Andrew R. Tillman and Joshua R. Walker, Knoxville, Tennessee, for appellees. Judge: FRANKS The Trial Court granted defendants summary judgment. Plaintiffs appealed the grant as to defendants Blue and Vista Radiology, arguing the Trial Court erred in granting judgment on grounds that the statute of limitation had run. We vacate and remand. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/flurij111405.pdf DENNIS WILSON v. BLOUNT COUNTY, TENNESSEE; DARRELL McEACHRON; and DANNY K. CARRIGAN Court: TCA Attorneys: Charles Dungan, Maryville, Tennessee, for appellant. Norman H. Newton, LaJuana G. Atkins, and Robert N. Goddard, Maryville, Tennessee, for appellee, Blount County, Tennessee. Judge: FRANKS In this action against the County, which sold plaintiff’s properties at a back tax sale, plaintiff charges sheriff failed to comply with process statutes before returning the process “not to be found” and county improperly relied on publication to give notice to plaintiff. The Trial Court held sheriff exercised due diligence and constructive notice was proper. On appeal, we reverse. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/wilsond111405.pdf RANDOLPH JENNINGS v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Court: TCCA Attorneys: Brandon Douglas Raulston, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the appellant, Randolph Jennings. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Angele M. Gregory, Assistant AttorneyGeneral; William H. Cox, III, District Attorney General; and Rodney C. Strong, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: TIPTON The petitioner, Randolph Jennings, appeals from the Hamilton County Criminal Court’s denial ofhis petition for post-conviction relief from his conviction for aggravated robbery, a Class B felony, and sentence of seventeen years as a Range II, multiple offender. On appeal, he contendsthat he received the ineffective assistance of counsel because (1) his trial counsel failed to raise the issue that the state suppressed favorable evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373U.S. 83, 83 S. Ct. 1194 (1963); (2) his trial counsel failed to explain his constitutional right to testify pursuant to Momon v. State, 18 S.W.3d 152 (Tenn. 1999); and (3) his appellate counselfailed to advise him of his right to appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court in a timely manner. We reverse the judgment of the trial court, grant a delayed appeal, and stay further proceedingspending the delayed appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/2005/jenningsr111405.pdf   PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL! 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 instructions at the beginning of this edition of Opinion Flash. JOIN THE TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION! While Opinion Flash is a free service of the Tennessee Bar Association, you must be a member of the Tennessee Bar Association in order to access the full text of the opinions or enjoy the many other features of TBALink. To join the TBA go to: http://www.tba.org/join_bar.mgi 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! Sign up for text or HTML version. 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