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Tennessee Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments as Part of SCALES Program

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 21, 2025

On Dec. 3, the Tennessee Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases at Bryan College in Dayton as part of the court’s Supreme Court Advancing Legal Education for Students (SCALES) program. SCALES is an initiative launched by the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1995 that educates high school students about Tennessee’s legal system and the functions of the judicial branch of government, and provides them with the unique opportunity to hear oral arguments in actual cases in a local community. The court will hear State v. Baylis, involving the sufficiency of evidence for a trafficking for a commercial sex act conviction stemming from a Tennessee Bureau Investigation sting operation, and Lowe v. Bridgestone, a workers’ compensation and premises liability case examining whether Bridgestone qualified as a statutory employer and owed a duty of care to an independent contractor killed on-site. Proceedings will begin at 9 a.m. EST in Rudd Auditorium and will be livestreamed on the TNCourts YouTube page. Read more in a press release from the Administrative Office of the Courts.

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