A measure approved by the House State Government Committee would allow Tennessee to call for a national convention on amending the U.S. Constitution to limit the federal government’s power. If the bill passes, Tennessee would join legislatures in four states – Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Alaska – to adopt resolutions calling for a “convention of states,” a movement led by the Citizens for Self-Governance. Read more from the Knoxville News Sentinel. 

Eighth Judicial Circuit Judge John McAfee has filed a complaint with the Board of Judicial Conduct against Campbell County General Sessions Judge Amanda Sammons, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. McAfee struck down several orders from Sammons to remove children from homes after lawyers for the state Department of Children Services said they did not seek removal of the children. Sammons on Friday attempted to appeal McAfee’s decisions.

This appeal concerns a post-divorce modification of alimony. During the underlying divorce proceedings, the parties executed a marital dissolution agreement providing that the husband would make payments to the wife of $8,000 per month in transitional alimony for a period of five years followed by payments of $7,500 per month in alimony in futuro for a period of five years.

The trial court denied a personal representative?s fee request after concluding that the request did not comply with a local rule setting a personal representative?s fee as a percentage of the value of the estate. We reverse and remand for the trial court to reconsider Appellant?s fee request “in light of all the relevant circumstances.” In re Estate of Schorn, No. E2013- 02245-COA-R3-CV, 2015 WL 1778292, at *8 (Tenn. Ct. App. Apr. 17, 2015

The trial court entered a final judgment confirming an arbitration award in favor of the appellee. Appellants appealed. Due to deficiencies in the appellants? brief to this Court, we conclude that they have waived their issues on appeal. The appeal is dismissed.

Defendant, Daetrus Pilate, appeals his convictions for rape of a child, aggravated sexual battery, sexual battery by an authority figure, and incest and also appeals his effective sentence of forty-nine years.

Defendant, John N. Moffitt, was convicted of reckless aggravated assault and sentenced to four years? incarceration to be served at 30 percent release eligibility. Defendant was also ordered to pay restitution and a $2,500 fine.

The Petitioner, Frederick D. Deberry, appeals as of right from the Fayette County Circuit Court?s summary dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief. On appeal, the Petitioner contends that the statute of limitations should be tolled (1) because he was in federal custody until 2014 and lacked access to Tennessee legal materials and (2) because his trial counsel and the trial court clerk failed to advise him about post-conviciton procedures after he inquired about such information. Discerning no error, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

Defendant, Cornelius Banks, appeals his Shelby County convictions for one count of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, one merged count of aggravated rape, one merged count of aggravated sexual battery, three counts of aggravated robbery, one count of aggravated burglary, and one count of employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. The trial court imposed a sentence of 240 years.

The Defendant, Clifford Eric Marsh, pleaded guilty to fourth offense driving on a revoked license, a Class A misdemeanor. See T.C.A. § 55-50-504 (2012). The trial court sentenced the Defendant to eleven months, twenty-nine days? confinement at 75% service. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred by denying his request for alternative sentencing.