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CLE director Shearon steps down; Curl is acting director
David Shearon, the first and only executive director of the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization, is resigning effective Oct. 31. He has held the position since the commission's inception in 1987. The commission has appointed its current assistant executive director, Andrea Curl, as acting director.
Learn more about Shearon's tenure and plans here
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LIBERTY STATE BANK v. CHARLES WAYNE SMITHSON
Court: TCA
Attorneys:
Charles Wayne Smithson, Jr., Smithville, Tennessee, Pro Se.
Bratten Hale Cook, Smithville, Tennessee, for the appellee, Liberty State Bank.
Judge: COTTRELL
The defendant has appealed from a default judgment granting the plaintiff possession of his 1995 Lincoln Towncar. Because the defendant did not file his notice of appeal within the
time permitted by Tenn. R. App. P. 4, we dismiss the appeal.
http://www.tba2.org/tba_files/TCA/2010/libertystatebank_mem_ord_100810.pdf
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| TODAY'S NEWS |
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| Legal News |
| Bar Exam results are up! |
| The results from the July bar exam are now available, thanks to the Board of Law Examiners. |
See the list
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| Judge: Health care law is constitutional |
| A federal judge in Michigan ruled Thursday that the new health-care overhaul law is constitutional. The ruling by Judge George Caram Steeh of Detroit is the first to reject a challenge to the law on the merits, rather than standing or other civil procedure objection. The case, brought by the Thomas More Center, is one of more than 15 legal challenges to the health insurance mandate that takes effect in 2014.
A lawyer for the Thomas More Center told The New York Times that the case is "set up nicely for appeal." |
ABAJournal.com connects you to this story
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| Celebrate Pro Bono |
| Legal clinic set for Tuesday in Jackson |
| West Tennessee Legal Services and the Ballard-Taylor Bar Association will host a legal advice clinic Oct. 12 at the Deliverance Cathedral of Prayer, 411 Fairmont Ave., in Jackson. The event will be from 5 to 7 p.m. For more information, contact Kathryn Tucker at kathrynt@wtls.org. |
Learm more about Celebrate Pro Bono Month
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| Election 2010 |
| Haslam talks to Health Law Forum about federal reforms |
| On Thursday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam told nearly 300 lawyers at the Tennessee Bar Association Health Law Forum in Franklin that the federal health reform act adopted early this year will cost $250 million to $300 million in new state dollars when it is fully implemented in 2014. He said it will add 250,000 to the TennCare rolls -- substantially more than the 150,000 people cut from TennCare by Gov. Phil Bredesen five years ago.
"This is going to be a major issue for the state," Haslam said. "I don't know where we will get that. It will mean one more huge battle coming down the road." Democratic candidate Mike McWherter was also invited to speak at the forum but, unable to attend, sent a representative. |
The Commercial Appeal reported
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| U.S. Supreme Court |
| Breyer hopes to educate about court with new book |
| The public needs to understand how the Supreme Court works, or eventually citizens will stop obeying its decisions, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says in promoting his new book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. "It is difficult for an institution that can't try to gain popularity to earn public respect. If the public lacks trust and respect for the Court, it will fail."
The approach Breyer advocates to interpreting the Constitution, he says he hopes, will serve as "an antidote to originalism," which "is not, in my view, a workable approach." |
Law.com carried this National Law Journal story
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| Upcoming |
| MALS celebrates 40th anniversary on Oct. 14 |
| Memphis Area Legal Services Inc. (MALS) will celebrate its 40th anniversary
on Oct. 14 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the University of Memphis
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. The theme of this year's celebration is
"Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present & Looking Forward to the
Future." The anniversary committee is chaired by Shelby County Criminal
Court Judge John W. Fowlkes and honorary chairs A C Wharton, mayor of
Memphis; Supreme Court Justice Janice M. Holder; retired Circuit Judge
George H. Brown Jr.; and W. J. Michael Cody with Burch, Porter & Johnson.
For additional information, contact Harrison D. McIver III at (901) 255-3447
or hdmciver@malsi.org.
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Learn more about MALS
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| Disciplinary Actions |
| Memphis attorney reinstated |
| Memphis attorney Marvin Posner was reinstated to the practice of law by Order of the Tennessee Supreme Court on Oct. 1. Posner was temporarily suspended on Sept. 8, for failing to respond to a complaint of misconduct. |
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| Nashville attorney disbarred |
| On Oct. 4, Reginald Lamont Horton of Nashville was disbarred by the Tennessee Supreme Court. On Aug. 18, Horton pled guilty to serious crimes, relating to the delivery of .5 grams of cocaine; possession of .5 grams of cocaine with intent to deliver; attempted theft of property over $1,000; facilitation of sale of 300 grams of cocaine and possession of 10 pounds of marijuana with intent to deliver. He was then suspended by the Tennessee Supreme Court, and subsequently filed a conditional guilty plea agreeing to his disbarment. |
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