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ANTONIUS HARRIS ET AL. v. TENNESSEE REHABILITATIVE INITIATIVE IN CORRECTION ET AL.

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on May 9, 2014

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Steven Compton, Nolensville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Antonius Harris, Timothy Boyles, Robert Payne, and Randy Mills.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter, Joseph F. Whalen, Associate Solicitor General, and Pamela S. Lorch, Senior Counsel, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellees, Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction and Tennessee Department of Correction.

Judge(s): CLEMENT

Inmates in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction who are housed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, filed various claims related to their “prison jobs,” inter alia, for wages and damages under the Tennessee Wage Regulation Act, specifically Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 50-2-101 and 50-2-104, and for breach of oral contract, promissory estoppel, unjust enrichment, and conversion. The Tennessee Claims Commission dismissed all of the inmates’ claims upon the defendants’ Tenn. R. Civ. P. 12.02 (1) and (6) motion to dismiss. We affirm.

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