TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Sep 4, 2014

Nine losing candidates from the August election are contesting results in a Shelby County Chancery Court lawsuit, the Memphis Daily News reports. The lawsuit was filed Sept. 2 by Criminal Court candidates Kenya Brooks, Alicia Howard and Mozella Ross; General Sessions Court candidates Kim Sims and J. Nathan Toney; District Attorney candidate Joe Brown; Juvenile Court clerk candidate Henri Brooks; Criminal Court clerk candidate Wanda Halbert; and Doris Deberry-Bradshaw, who ran in a state House Democratic primary. The lawsuit — originally filed in General Sessions Court — seeks “a vote recount and/or the setting aside of the election results as they are individually affected and a declaration declaring them to have won the election.” The action also seeks an open inspection of records from the election, including computer records.