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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 TINA CARTWRIGHT v. MACON COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITALand THE RECIPROCAL GROUP Court: TWCA Attorneys: Michael Lee Parsons, Ruth, Howard, Tate & Sowell, TN, for the appellants,Macon County General Hospital and The Reciprocal Group. B. Keith Williams and Jason Glynn Denton, Lannom, Williams & Kane, TN,for the appellee, Tina Cartwright. Judge: TURNBULL This workersâ compensation appeal has been referred to the SpecialWorkersâ Compensation Appeals Panel in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. ¤ 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact andconclusions of law. The employer appeals, arguing that the trial court should have granted the employerâs Rule 60 motion for relief fromjudgment. The trial court considered testimony that a legal assistant was given incorrect information by the clerkâs office but held that the employerfailed to show grounds for excusable neglect. The Panel has concluded that the judgment of the trial court should be affirmed. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TSC_WCP/2005/cartwrightt9805.pdf RODERICK McDAVIS v. METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY Court: TCA Attorneys: Jeffrey Blackshear, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Roderick McDavis. J. Douglas Sloan, III, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellee, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Judge: CAIN A Metropolitan Nashville police officer seeks judicial review of the Final Order of the Civil Service Commission of Metropolitan Government pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 4-5-322 following his termination from Metropolitan Government service. After reviewing the record, the Chancery Court of Davidson County determined that the decision of the Civil Service Commission was not arbitrary and capricious and was supported by substantial and material evidence. The judgment of the Chancellor is affirmed. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/mcdavisr9805.pdf WILLIAM PATRICK ROBERSON v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Court: TCCA Attorneys: Guy T. Wilkinson, District Public Defender, and Michael U. King, Huntingdon, Tennessee, for the appellant, William Patrick Roberson. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Seth P. Kestner, Assistant Attorney General; Robert Radford, District Attorney General; and Stephen D. Jackson, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: MCLIN The petitioner, William Patrick Roberson, appeals from the post-conviction courtâs denial of post-conviction relief. On appeal, he contends that his statements to police were taken in violation of his constitutional rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), and that he received the ineffective assistance of counsel. 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