Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Inc. is seeking an employment-law attorney for its Southern Migrant Legal Services office in Nashville. The non-profit law firm provides legal services to agricultural workers throughout the middle south. Applicants should possess a commitment to workers’ rights. Proficiency in spoken and written Spanish is preferred. 

Retired criminal court judge and former reality court personality Judge Joe Brown will be the featured speaker at Lane College's Founder's Day Scholarship Gala and Dinner March 6 in Jackson. The event is scheduled for 3 p.m. in the J.F. Lane Health and Physical Education Building. Tickets and tables are available. The Jackson Sun has more information.

“Public defenders toil with short staffs and shoestring budgets to uphold that last bit in your Miranda rights.” That's one of the messages from the Metro Nashville Public Defenders office, which launched a new campaign – Defend Nashville – to make its defenders a more prominent part of the judicial-reform debate. The Nashville Scene profiles the initiative, which includes Public Defender Dawn Deaner and her colleagues addressing crowds to share “about a city that few outside the halls of the downtown courthouse ever see.” The office has also launched a court watch program that allows citizens to spend a day in court with a public defender.

The widow of an inmate who committed suicide Jan. 30 at the Rutherford County jail has filed a lawsuit accusing the county of negligence, the Daily News Journal reports. According to the suit filed Feb. 11 in Circuit Court, Jonothan E. Maxwell was intoxicated at the time of his arrest and did not go through the “normal intake process,” which includes “being assisted by a nurse.” He committed suicide shortly after his arrest. 

Tennessee Appellate Judge Camille R. McMullen was the keynote speaker at Middle Tennessee State University's 20th Annual Unity Luncheon, held yesterday to honor community heroes age 60 or older who have made outstanding contributions to the area. McMullen, the first African-American woman to serve on an intermediate court in state history, encouraged the audience to view diversity as a positive. Read more from the Daily News Journal.

This is a health care liability case. The trial court granted summary judgment to the defendant-medical providers after the exclusion of the plaintiff?s standard-of-care expert due to failure to comply with discovery requests. Discerning no error, we affirm.

This is a construction case. Appellee, Cecil McNatt, contracted to build and obtain the required licensing for an assisted living facility for Appellant Jane Vestal. The facility was constructed and licensed according to the parties? contract. Following completion, Appellant refused to pay the balance of the contract amount, citing the Appellee?s lack of a contractor?s license and numerous construction defects. Appellee filed suit against Appellant for breach of contract, and Appellant counterclaimed for violations of the Contractors Licensing Act and Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.

This is an appeal of a grant of summary judgment. Defendant Linda Elam conveyed property owned by her individually to Defendant Trust. This property was then pledged as collateral to secure a construction loan for the Trust. Defendants Fred and Linda Elam then obtained another loan in their individual capacities. Appellee’s predecessor in interest obtained ownership of the Defendants’ individual loan and brought suit seeking to have the conveyance of the property to the Trust declared void.

This is an appeal of the denial of Appellants’ Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 60.02 motion to set aside the trial court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Appellees. Because the order appealed is not a final judgment, the appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

The petitioner, Curtiss Carlos Talley, pled guilty in 2002 to aggravated assault and was sentenced to serve five years concurrently with a federal sentence which, apparently, was later imposed. Twelve years later, in 2014, he filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis, asking, as we understand, that the court “vacat[e] his state judgment/conviction on the merits and in the interest of justice.” The trial court determined that he had failed to state a claim for coram nobis relief, and we agree.