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Nashville News Station Settles Lawsuit with Former On-Air Personalities

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Mar 1, 2019
News Type: Legal News
Nashville news station WSMV has settled with three former on-air personalities who charged the station with age discrimination and harassment in a lawsuit filed 15 months ago, The Tennessean reports. No details were revealed about the settlement between WSMV and former veteran reporter Dennis Ferrier, former anchor Jennifer Johnson and former longtime weekend weathercaster Nancy Van Camp. The lawsuit said the station started "a station-wide pattern and practice of age-based employment discrimination and harassment that resulted in the reduction, removal and/or replacement of many of its veteran on-air personalities." The station still faces an age/discrimination lawsuit from former longtime anchor Demetria Kalodimos.

TBA Website to Undergo Maintenance Tomorrow

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Mar 1, 2019
The TBA website servers will be undergoing maintenance over the weekend, starting at 10 a.m. tomorrow. The site may be down intermittently throughout the day.

Memphis to Halt Funding for Office of Re-Entry

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Mar 1, 2019
News Type: Legal News
The city of Memphis is winding down its funding of the Memphis-Shelby County Office of Re-Entry, The Commercial Appeal reports. The Office of Re-Entry provides a hub with access and referrals to re-entry services, case management and workforce readiness classes. Though it is currently a joint program with the city and the county, come July 1, the office will solely be a county function, when the city moves its employees there into an expanded Manhood University program.

DOJ Monitor Submits Final Report on Shelby Juvenile Court

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Mar 1, 2019
News Type: Legal News
The final report on the Shelby County Juvenile Court from the U.S. Department of Justice says there’s still more work to be done, The Daily Memphian reports. “There is a continued need to address the overrepresentation of minority youth in terms of referrals and in secure detention as well as in the receiving of a petition by the Juvenile Court,” DOJ equal protection monitor Michael Leiber wrote in a letter accompanying his final report. When the DOJ abruptly ended its oversight over Juvenile Court after six years last October, fewer than half the issues cited by the DOJ on equal protection were in partial compliance (46.9 percent) or full compliance (25 percent), according to Shelby County Juvenile Court's Dashboard.

No New Trial for Kingston Coal Ash Contractor

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Mar 1, 2019
News Type: Legal News
A federal judge has refused to toss out a jury’s verdict against a global contractor accused of poisoning workers who cleaned up the Kingston coal ash spill in 2008, Knoxnews reports. Chief U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan ruled there was ample proof to back up a jury’s November ruling that Jacobs Engineering breached its duty to protect workers who cleaned up the nation’s largest coal ash spill. The Tennessee Valley Authority put Jacobs in charge of cleaning up a spill of 7.3 million tons of coal ash at its Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County in December 2008.

General Sessions Court Judges Meet in Murfreesboro

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Mar 1, 2019
News Type: Legal News
General Sessions Court judges from across the state recently gathered for a conference in Murfreesboro where they discussed issues related to the opioid epidemic, the effects of vicarious trauma, updates to case law and more. The topics covered at the conference largely dealt with challenges that General Sessions judges face on a routine basis in their courtrooms. Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Jeff Bivins gave the opening remarks. Some of the most serious challenges are arising from the ongoing opioid-driven addiction crisis, which was the subject of a session led by Jill Carney, a regional overdose prevention specialist with the Memphis Area Prevention Coalition.

TBA Weekly Legislative Update Focuses on Non-TBA Bills

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 28, 2019

The TBA's weekly livestream legislative update was posted today. This week's edition focused on bills that have been filed that were not TBA bills but still have ramifications for the legal community. Watch the video here, and add a question in the comments - it could be answered in a future livestream.

Services Saturday for Memphis Attorney Sam Cole Jr.

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 28, 2019
News Type: Passages
Memphis lawyer Sam F. Cole Jr. died on Feb. 22 at the age of 82. He served in the U.S. Air Force before earning his law degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. He practiced from 1966 until shortly before his death. A family visitation will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Calvary Episcopal Church, with a memorial service to follow at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any donations be sent to the Calvary Friends of Music, 102 N. 2nd Street, Memphis, Tennessee, 38103.

Jackson Officials Warn of Scammers Following Severe Floods

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 28, 2019
News Type: Legal News
Officials are warning residents of communities affected by flooding to be vigilant for scammers attempting to take advantage of disaster victims, The Jackson Sun reports. Jackson Madison County EMA Director Marty Clements said Madison County residents have fallen victim to these types of scams in the past, mostly perpetrated by people posing as construction workers and clean-up crews. The agency also encourages people to check business references, make sure companies doing work for them are registered with the county and speak with insurance companies before getting work done.

Editorial: Ending Stigma of Mental Health Important for Legal Community

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Feb 28, 2019
News Type: Your Career
A new editorial in the ABA Journal comes from the perspective of an attorney who has lived with depression for 40 years. Stephanie Mitchell Hughes describes her lifelong struggle, including uneasiness over taking medication and thoughts of suicide. It is important to speak honestly about mental health issues, she said, in order to end the stigma surrounding them and encourage others to get help. "The legal profession must stop pretending that the proverbial emperor is wearing clothes," Hughes writes. "Contrary to popular belief, we are merely human."
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