U.S. Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley in a series of letters is calling on officials in Maryland and Virginia to "enforce" state and local laws that, she wrote, "prohibit picketing outside of the homes of Supreme Court Justices,” NPR reports. Curley's requests come after weeks of protests and picketing outside the homes of the court's conservative justices in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., set off by the leaked Roe v. Wade draft decision in May. Federal and local law enforcement have been present at the homes, but governors of both states have recently said that responsibility for managing the protests falls to federal law enforcement. The two governors wrote to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in May, urging him to enforce a federal law that forbids the demonstrations.

Nashville attorney Wilson “Woody” Sims died on June 26. He was 97. Sims joined Nashville law firm Bass, Berry & Sims in 1948 after graduating from Vanderbilt University Law School. Sims remained with the firm for more than 50 years, practicing in a variety of areas. Sims is a former president of the TBA and a House of Delegates member, as well as a former president of the Nashville Bar Association and the founding president of the Nashville Bar Foundation. He was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1959 and 1960 and was appointed by the governor in the 1960s to chair the Tennessee Commission on Human Relations, which dealt with troubled areas of race relations in the state. Services for Sims will be held at West End United Methodist Church on July 6 at 11 a.m. CDT. Visitation will be held from 9:30-11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, remembrances can be made to The Webb School, P.O. Box 488, Bell Buckle, TN 37020; Vanderbilt Law School, 131 21st Ave South, Nashville, TN 37203; or West End United Methodist Church, 2200 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37203.

Three 2020 Nashville School of Law graduates have helped strengthen Tennessee’s “Unlawful Exposure” law, Nashville’s NewsChannel 5 reports. As an NSL student, Doni Porteous worked on two “revenge porn” cases during her time as an intern at the Davidson County District Attorney’s office. Both cases couldn’t be prosecuted because they “didn’t fit the letter of the law.” Porteous decided to make the issue the focus of her rigorous writing project at NSL, identifying the law’s weaknesses in her paper. Fellow NSL graduate David Aguilera, who worked in the state legislature, later spoke with Porteous about the issue and brought it up with his boss, Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville. Yarbro then filed a bill to close the loopholes Porteous had identified. Logan Elliot, another classmate of Porteous and Aguilera, works for Rep. Jason Powell, D-Nashville, who then co-sponsored the bill, which went into effect on July 1.

Attorney volunteers are needed for the Shelby County Court Cost Clinic on July 30 from noon until 4 p.m. CDT. Pro bono attorneys will assist with presenting court cost waivers on behalf of registrants. Seven General Sessions Criminal Court judges will be presiding. Volunteers will also help with expungement services for General Sessions cases. No prior experience is required and all volunteers will receive training and scripts. Register to volunteer online or email Amber Floyd with questions.

Attorney Kevin Latta of Columbia law firm Parks, Bryant & Snyder was yesterday featured in a New York Times article on the Tour Divide – a 2,700 mile ultra-endurance bikepacking race from the Canadian Rockies to New Mexico. Roughly 200 cyclists gathered in Banff, Alberta, to start the 2022 race. Fifteen cyclists had to be airlifted out of the race, which was made complicated this year by extreme weather including above average rain, snowfall and New Mexico wildfires. Caught in a storm, Latta was swept down a river on his bike, later realizing he’d been taken 10 miles off course by a broken GPS device. “It didn’t occur to me that I was off the route,” he said. “I just thought this was the continuing sadism of the 2022 Tour Divide.” Ultimately, Latta voluntarily disqualified himself by accepting a ride from a forest service truck. Though he was disqualified, Latta was determined to get back on the route and finish the race. Read the New York Times article.

Knox County lawyer Keith Allen Pope today received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Board of Professional Responsibility. Pope engaged in criminal conduct, pled guilty to a violation of an Order of Protection and violated his bond conditions, which the BPR wrote “reflects adversely upon his fitness as a lawyer in other respects.” The censure is conditioned on Pope complying with a Tennessee Lawyer Assistance Program monitoring agreement with mandatory reporting to Disciplinary Counsel every six months.

The Nashville office Hughes & Coleman PLLC is looking to hire an associate attorney with two to three years of experience. The successful candidate will have experience evaluating, handling and managing client cases, including nursing home cases, and experience managing others. Excellent writing and research skills are required. The position will involve extensive writing, research, discovery, client contact and case management. To apply, email mortiz@hughesandcoleman.com. Find more job postings on the TBA’s JobLink site.

Longtime Chattanooga attorney Howard Ivan Levine died Wednesday. He was 84. A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, Levine joined Chattanooga’s Miller, Martin, Hitching, Tipton & Lenihan, which is known today as Miller & Martin. Levine practiced at Miller & Martin his entire career, serving several years as chairman/managing partner. He practiced in corporate, healthcare and trusts and estates law and previously served as chair of the TBA’s Health Law Section. A memorial service will be held for Levine on July 12 at 10 a.m. EDT at Mizpah Congregation and a lunch reception following at noon at Chattanooga Golf & Country Club. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Mizpah Congregation, 923 McCallie Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37403; The McCallie School, 500 Dodds Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37404; or the charitable organization of your choice.

The TBA’s annual FastTrack program provides an opportunity for registrants to customize their learning schedule and fulfill all of their CLE requirements for the year. Earn 15-hours of CLE through a combination of live programming and prepaid credits to complete online when it works best for you. The programming offers tips and updates in diverse areas of law, designed to be relevant to a wide range of practice areas. The FastTrack program will be held live in Memphis on Aug. 26, Nashville on Sept. 16 and Knoxville on Sept. 23. Learn more on the TBA CLE webpage.

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Joe Biden to end the “Remain in Mexico” policy, The Hill reports. The policy, put in place by former President Donald Trump, requires U.S. asylum-seekers at the southern border to wait in Mexico while their applications are processed. The 5-4 ruling found that the administration did not violate federal immigration law when it sought to rescind the policy and returned the case to lower courts for additional proceedings. Although it’s headed back to the lower courts, an October rescission by the Department of Homeland Security says it will take effect “as soon as practicable” following a decision from the court.