Defendant, Timothy Demond Lambert, appeals from the trial court?s dismissal, without an evidentiary hearing, of Defendant?s motion filed pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1. After review of the record and the briefs, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Defendant, Bashan Murchison and his Co-Defendant, Garrick Graham, were convicted by a Sullivan County Jury of numerous drug offenses.

The petitioner, an employee of the City of Chattanooga (“the City”), was demoted in his employment position after a city accident investigator found that the petitioner had failed to report an accident involving a city vehicle he was driving while on duty. The petitioner sought to appeal the City?s decision through the Administrative Procedures Division. Upon the City?s motion to dismiss the appeal, the administrative law judge (“ALJ”) found that the petitioner?s appeal had been untimely filed and dismissed it for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

The plaintiff in this action and the decedent were formerly husband and wife. Before they married, the decedent husband and the plaintiff executed an antenuptial agreement, which provided, inter alia, that the decedent would maintain a $500,000 life insurance policy with the plaintiff as beneficiary until his death. When the parties divorced in 2009, the divorce court determined that their antenuptial agreement was enforceable, including the life insurance provision.

House Speaker Beth Harwell, R-Nashville, has asked the Sexual Assault Center to work with a non-legislative panel tasked with improving the legislature’s sexual harassment investigation practices. The panel, scheduled to hold its second meeting today, was created following an investigation by The Tennessean of sexual harassment complaints against Rep. Jeremy Durham, R-Franklin.

A Texas judge resigned in a deal with prosecutors after sending a letter inviting former jurors to a campaign event, the ABA Journal reports. Judge Michael Seiler of Montgomery County also agreed never to run for judicial office again. Seiler denied doing anything wrong in the incident.

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily suspended Davidson County lawyer John Martin Drake from the practice of law after he failed to respond to the Board regarding a complaint of misconduct. Drake is immediately precluded from accepting any new case and must cease representing existing clients by today. The suspension is immediate and remains in effect until dissolution or modification by the Supreme Court. Read the BPR release.

Casemaker agrees with Fastcase: state law is not copyrightable. Fastcase filed a federal suit against Casemaker after its parent company Lawriter demanded Fastcase take down Georgia Administrative Rules and Regulations from its platform. Lawriter has a contact with the state to publish the laws, but Casemaker CEO says the company will not defend the Fastcase suit. Read more from the ABA Journal.

The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands announced Hallye Fetterolf and Alysa Medina have joined its Board of Directors. Fetterolf, a sales/customer service agent, will represent the client population of Legal Aid Society’s Oak Ridge service area. Medina, a Board of Immigration Appeals accredited representative and case coordinator for the Office of Immigrant Services, will represent the Cookeville service area.

“We were best buddies,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in a tribute to her longtime friend, Justice Antonin Scalia. The two shared more than opposite political leanings; they shared international trips, family holidays and a mutual respect for one another, Vox explains. “…When I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation,” she wrote.