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RACHAEL GREEN ET AL. v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Dec 15, 2021

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: W. Gary Blackburn and Bryant Kroll, Nashville, Tennessee, and Robin C. Moore, Carthage, Tennessee, for the appellants, Rachael Green and Logan White.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General and Reporter; Andrée Sophia Blumstein, Solicitor General; and M. Andrew Womack, Assistant Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): FRIERSON

In this action filed against the State of Tennessee (“the State”), alleging negligence by employees of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (“DCS”), the Claims Commission (“the Commission”) dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Determining that subject matter jurisdiction existed in the Commission, we vacate the Commission’s order and remand this matter to the Commission for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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