TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 15, 2022

U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw yesterday declined to order an upcoming meeting of the Tennessee Judicial Conference to be opened to the public, the Associated Press reports. The decision came during an emergency hearing after the editor of a national news website filed suit Monday seeking access to this week’s Judicial Conference meeting. Tennessee Deputy Attorney General Janet Kleinfelter argued that such meetings are typically confined to educational sessions, with many of the conference’s policy decisions left to the court administrator. Crenshaw did, however, allow The Center Square's Executive Editor Dan McCaleb to proceed with this suit. McCaleb argues the meetings should be public if the group is discussing public policy.