Appellate Practice Section

This is TBA’s newest section and was created by TBA leadership to provide members the opportunity to come together for the purposes of exchanging information and to provide CLE on appellate practice issues.

Appellate Practice Leadership

Chair
Mark Fulks
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell...
100 Med Tech Parkway, Suite 200
Johnson City, TN 37604
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mfulks@bakerdonelson.com
(423)975-7655
Immediate Past Chair
David Raybin
Hollins Raybin & Weissman PC
424 Church St Ste 2200
Nashville, TN 37219
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draybin@hollinslegal.com
(615)256-6666
Vice-Chair
Amy Farrar
Hagan & Farrar, PLLC
106 North Church Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
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amy@haganfarrar.com
(615)800-4747

Appellate Practice News

Court Agrees to Hear 2 New Civil Cases

By Stacey Shrader ... on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 5:13pm

The Tennessee Supreme Court recently agreed to hear two civil cases. The first addresses business liability when customers injure third parties. The suit will test whether businesses have a duty to take steps to protect customers from reasonably foreseeable risks, which in this case involved an inebriated customer who was expelled from the store and then caused a car accident in the parking lot. The second case concerns surrogacy agreements and the rights of a surrogate who changed her mind about giving up the child. The Raybin Perky Hot List has a summary of each case.

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Frierson Investiture Set for Tuesday Morning

By Stacey Shrader ... on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 3:37pm

Gov. Bill Haslam will administer the oath of office to Tennessee’s newest Court of Appeals judge, Thomas R. Frierson II, Tuesday at 9:45 a.m. at the Morristown-Hamblen High School West. Dignitaries, including Supreme Court Chief Justice Gary R. Wade, Court of Appeals Presiding Judge Charles Susano Jr., Hamblen County Mayor Bill Brittain and Morristown Mayor Danny Thomas will be on hand to give remarks. A reception will follow the ceremony. Haslam appointed Frierson in February to fill a vacancy created when Judge Herschel P. Franks retired at the end of 2012. Prior to his appointment, Frierson was a chancellor in the Third Judicial District, serving Greene, Hamblen, Hancock and Hawkins counties. The AOC reported the news.

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