Tennessee Bar Journal
January 2008 • Vol. 44, No. 1
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Replacing Unfairness with JusticeNew Legal Services Director Housepian Sees Pro Bono as a ‘Great Gift’ “My work provides a great opportunity to live out my faith and purpose. It gives meaning to why I became a lawyer,” Gary D. Housepian [house-SEP-ee-an] says of his relatively new job as executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & the Cumberlands (LASMTC). After 31 years under the careful leadership of Ashley Wiltshire, LSMTC named Housepian director after Wilts
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Feature Story
Garbage, Garbage Everywhere . . .The Effects of United Haulers Association Inc. v Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority on Local Government Solid Waste ManagementRecently, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding a local government’s ability to exercise flow control over solid waste. In the case of United Haulers Association Inc. v Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority,[1] the court addressed the issue of whether a local government entity could enact fl ...
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Feature Story
Dying Declarations … the Trials of Stanley PuryearI had thought that ax murders went out of fashion after Lizzie Borden’s 1893 parricides in Massachusetts. But they surfaced again in Memphis around 4:30 a.m. on Monday, May 2, 1932. At 1300 Ridgeway (near the intersection of present day Mississippi Boulevard and South Parkway), Stanley Puryear axed wife Aurelia and daughter Aurelia Zenia (age 8). Then he shotgunned a black man named Will Jamison. He told police that Jamison murdered the first ...
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People
Legal Aid Society wins excellence awardsThe Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands (LASMTC) received two of the top awards presented in the Center for Nonprofit Management’s 2007 Salute to Excellence program. The Chief Executive of the Year Award went to Ashley Wiltshire Jr., in recognition of his leadership and the organization’s achievements. LASMTC was also recognized with an Excellence in Communications Award, presented to the organization that exemplifies the best str ...
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Letters of the Law
The following letter was written to Journal author Charles H. Anderson: As a longtime member of the Tennessee Historical Commission, I found your article on Judge Anderson (“Joseph Inslee Anderson: Pioneer Federal Judge and Classic ‘Roman’ Senator,” November 2007 Tennessee Bar Journal) to be very interesting and informative. You ought to expand it a bit to go to the Tennessee Historical Journal! Also [interesting] that Don Paine comments on the new Aaron Burr biography in the same Journal...
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News
Legislative Wrap-upCorporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative Grants AvailableApplications are now being accepted for the 2008 Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative Grants. Sponsored by the Tennessee Bar Association, the grants will be funded by money raised from the First Annual Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative Reception and Dinner. The money will go to local access to justice organizations and partnerships with corporate legal departments and law firms to defer the costs of developing pro bono ...
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Disciplinary Actions
ReinstatedThe following attorneys have been reinstated to the practice of law after complying with Supreme Court Rule 21, which requires mandatory continuing legal education:
John Thompson Harding, Goodlettsville; Thomas Michael Leveille, Knoxville; James A. Meany III, Dalton, Ga.; Randy K. Miller, Powell; and Glen A. Wimmer, Memphis.
The following attorneys have been reinstated to the practice of law after complying with Section 20 of Supreme Court Rule 9, which requires the payment of annual reg...
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People
Legal Aid Society wins excellence awardsThe Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands (LASMTC) received two of the top awards presented in the Center for Nonprofit Management’s 2007 Salute to Excellence program. The Chief Executive of the Year Award went to Ashley Wiltshire Jr., in recognition of his leadership and the organization’s achievements. LASMTC was also recognized with an Excellence in Communications Award, presented to the organization that exemplifies the best str ...
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Paine on Procedure
Dying Declarations The Trial of Sabrina Lewis, “The Lady with the Vases” On Friday, July 13, 2001, Sabrina Lewis drove a killer to Always Antiques to rob and murder the proprietor, Gary Dean Finchum. She was convicted and sentenced to 21 years. Sabrina had been casing the store for three weeks under the ruse of wanting to sell two vases. On the fatal morning she left identifying information: her name and a driver’s license number and “two vases.” The dying Mr. Finchum spoke to ...
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Day on Torts
Strike One. You’re Out!Judges on the federal appellate courts have a tough job. They routinely face a wide range of legal issues where federal law is applicable. Those federal issues may have been addressed by any one of the other appellate courts or the hundreds of federal district judges and therefore the author of an opinion must wade through lots of law before reaching a decision in each case. Federal judges also face a significant number of cases where state law applies, including the law ...
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But Seriously, Folks
Dancing with the LawyersI’m a lousy dancer. It’s not my fault. I grew up in the Baptist church where I was taught that dancing was a mortal sin, like smoking or drinking or voting for a Democrat. For the eternal life of me, when I was a child, I could not understand the theological basis for prohibiting dancing as sinful. I could find absolutely nothing in the Bible about it. Not one of the commandments read, “Thou shalt not dance!” And in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus did not say, “B ...
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