TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 24, 2026

The Tennessee Attorney General’s office has indefinitely delayed a legal challenge to the state’s abortion ban from going to trial as planned. According to the Nashville Banner newsletter, a two-week non-jury trial was supposed to start Monday in Davidson County Chancery Court, the culmination of a legal challenge that began in September 2023. On Tuesday, after receiving a chancellor’s order on a motion for summary judgment, the state filed a Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure Rule 3 (TRAP 3) appeal with the Tennessee Court of Appeals. In response, to save the trial, the plaintiffs filed an emergency motion for partial remand to the trial court and for expedited consideration, which the appeals court denied. As such, the chancery court removed the trial from the docket.