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Posted by: Chelsea Bennett on Aug 26, 2025

Here’s the late summer 2025 newsletter from TBA’s Labor & Employment Section. We want to thank our writers — Doug Hamill, Rick Bennett, Jay A. Ebelhar, Jason Ensley, Bethany Westcott Wilson and Bruce E. Buchanan — for their excellent articles. In this issue you will find the following submissions:

  1. The Tennessee Human Rights Commission Has Been Dissolved; Attorney General’s Office Now Assumes Oversight of THRA and TDA Claims
  2. Supreme Court Rejects 6th Circuit’s Higher Standard for “Majority-Group” Title VII Discrimination Claims: Concurrence Casts a Shadow over DEI Programs and Encourages Courts to Discard McDonnell-Douglas Burden-Shifting Analysis
  3. School Leader’s Claims Perish Due to 'Ministerial Exception'
  4. No Independent Recollection: Kean Reminds Everyone Contemporaneous Documentation is Still King
  5. Are Your Employer Clients Ready for an ICE Encounter?

We are always looking for volunteer attorneys to write articles. If you have an article or an idea for an article, please email section coordinator Chelsea Bennett at cbennett@tnbar.org

-Maha Ayesh, Doug Hamill & Jeb Gerth