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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 J. ELAINE BURKE v. MARY KATHERINE LANGDON Court: TCA Attorneys: Marshall H. Peterson, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Appellant, J. Elaine Burke. Gail F. Wortley, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Appellee, Mary Katherine Langdon. Judge: SWINEY J. Elaine Burke (ãPlaintiffä) sued Mary Katherine Langdon (ãDefendantä) claiming that Defendant: (1) acting as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles Henry Langdon, III (ãthe Estateä) was aware that Decedent owed money to Plaintiff; (2) had a duty under Tenn. Code Ann. ¤ 30-2306(e) to notify Plaintiff of the time and procedure for filing claims against the estate; (3) breached that duty with the result that the Probate Court held that Plaintiffâs claim was time barred; and (4) could be held personally responsible for the debt owed by Decedent to Plaintiff. Both parties filed motions for summary judgment. The Trial Court granted Defendantâs motion for summary judgment and dismissed Plaintiffâs complaint finding and holding, inter alia, that Plaintiff had cited no case ãwhere the personal representative was held personally responsible for time barred claims of creditors that resulted from the personal representativeâs failure to give actual notice to the creditor ... [and that] the Court has found no support for such a claim by way of precedence or from a review of well-accepted treatises.ä Plaintiff appeals. We vacate the grant of summary judgment and remand. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/burkej101405.pdf CRAIG ALAN DUNN v. MATRIX EXHIBITS, INC. Court: TCA Attorneys: C. Bennett Harrison, Jr. and Brian W. Holmes, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Craig Alan Dunn. Paul W. Ambrosius and W. Justin Adams, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellee, Matrix Exhibits, Inc. Judge: CLEMENT In this suit by an employee, Craig Dunn, against his former corporate employer, Matrix Exhibits, Inc., for breach of written employment contract, the trial court entered judgment for Dunn based upon a finding Matrix anticipatorily breached the employment agreement. The trial court awarded Dunn three of six categories of damages he sought but denied the other claimed damages based upon a finding Dunnâs proof of the amount of such damages was speculative. Both parties appealed. Finding Matrix in actual breach of the employment contract, we affirm the award of damages for moving expenses, car allowance, and salary, but reverse the finding that Dunnâs proof of damages for 5% of Matrixâ value was too speculative, and award Dunn an additional $282,500. We affirm the trial court in all other respects. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCA/2005/dunnc101405.pdf STATE OF TENNESSEE v. REGGIE ESTES Court: TCCA Attorneys: William L. Johnson, Memphis, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Reggie Estes. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Assistant Attorney General; Garry Brown, District Attorney General; and Jerald Campbell, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: HAYES The Appellant, Reggie Estes, was convicted by a Haywood County jury of vehicular homicide by intoxication and was sentenced to fourteen years as a Range II, multiple offender. On appeal, Estes raises the following issues for our review: (1) whether the evidence is sufficient to support his conviction; and (2) whether he was sentenced in violation of Blakely v. Washington. After review of the record, we affirm. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/2005/estesr101405.pdf STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ANGIE DELENE JACKSON Court: TCCA Attorneys: Mitzi L. Sweet, Morristown, Tennessee (on appeal); and Leroy Tipton, Jr., Greeneville,Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Angie Delene Jackson. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Kathy D. Aslinger, Assistant AttorneyGeneral; C. Berkeley Bell, Jr., District Attorney General; and Cecil Clayton Mills, Jr., Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, the State of Tennessee. Judge: WOODALL Following a jury trial, Defendant, Angie Delene Jackson, was convicted of driving a commercialvehicle under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater, a Class A misdemeanor, and for violation of the motor carrier safety rules and regulations, a ClassB misdemeanor. The trial court sentenced Defendant to concurrent sentences of eleven months, twenty-nine days for each conviction. On appeal, Defendant argues (1) that the trial court erredin denying her motion to suppress the results of her blood alcohol test; (2) that the trial court erred in denying her motion to suppress the evidence discovered during a search of her vehicle;and (3) that the trial court erred in ordering Defendant to serve five percent of her effective sentence in confinement. We find that the trial court erred in denying Defendantâs motion tosuppress the evidence discovered during a search of her vehicle. We find the trial courtâs error harmless as to Defendantâs DUI conviction, and affirm that conviction. Because we find theevidence insufficient, however, to support Defendantâs conviction for violation of the motor carrier safety rules and regulations, we reverse it and dismiss that charge. We further reverseDefendantâs sentence for her DUI conviction and remand for a new sentencing hearing. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/2005/jacksona101405.pdf Civilian Handgun Permits TN Attorney General Opinions Date: 2005-10-11 Opinion Number: 05-154 http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/2005/op154.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! 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