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JUDY MORROW WRIGHT ET AL. v. MATTHEW G. BUYER ET AL.

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Mar 2, 2021

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Larry E. Parrish, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellants, David L. Morrow and Judy M. Wright.

Attorneys 2: Kenneth P. Jones and M. Matthew Thornton, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellees, Matthew G. Buyer and SunTrust Bank, N.A.

Judge(s): MCBRAYER

After their case was dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, the plaintiffs moved for relief from the judgment claiming that the trial judge should have recused herself. The court denied the motion for relief, and this appeal followed. We previously considered the plaintiffs’ claims of the judge’s “appearance of a predispositional bias” in an accelerated interlocutory appeal as of right under Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 10B. In that appeal, we determined that the plaintiffs had waived their right to challenge the judge’s impartiality. So based on the law of the case, we affirm the denial of plaintiffs’ motion for relief from the judgment.

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