TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 1, 2022

Open government advocates are seeking to expand access to the Tennessee Code Annotated, the comprehensive version of Tennessee state law including relevant history and judicial review notes. Public.Resource.Org and Nashville law professor David Hudson sued LexisNexis in Davidson County Chancery Court last week, asking the court to force the company to offer the complete and current electronic version of the TCA, Nashville Post reports. The state says it does not have an electronic copy of the code and LexisNexis has denied previous requests. The advocates argue that LexisNexis “is the functional equivalent of state government for purposes of its work producing the TCA” and should therefore have to comply with public records laws.