This appeal involves a lawsuit filed by an insured against his insurer due to the insurer?s failure to pay a claim for a theft loss. The trial court granted summary judgment to the insurer, finding no coverage under the policy. We affirm.

The outcome of a Texas case before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging abortion laws will impact a legal challenge in Tennessee. The operators of three Tennessee abortion clinics filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion laws, including a 2015 requirement that clinics performing 50 or more surgical abortions each year be regulated as ambulatory surgical care centers. U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp granted a temporary hold on the proceedings until the Supreme Court case is resolved. "The standards expected to be addressed by the Supreme Court will be critical for developing and evaluating the relevant evidence in this case," lawyers for the state and the clinics noted in their joint request for the halt. Read more from The Tennessean.

Flossie Weill of Weill & Long PLLC was sworn in Tuesday as municipal judge for Lookout Mountain, The Chattanoogan reports. Mayor Carol Mutter and town commissioners appointed Weill to the position to fill the unexpired eight-year term of Judge John Higgason who died last week. 

A U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that juveniles serving life sentences for murder must be considered for parole may impact a Columbia case. Charles Lowe-Kelley was sentenced to two consecutive life terms when he was a teenager for the shooting deaths of two people. Thomas Hutto, Kelley's attorney, argues that the two terms are equal to life without parole because Kelley was a juvenile when sentenced. “I think (Monday’s ruling) gives a lot of good ammunition for an appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Courts,” Hutto said. Read more from The Daily Herald. 

Republican House members admitted today that they knew about the allegations of inappropriate behavior by State Rep. Jeremy Durham for months, The Tennessean reports. “I was approached separately by two different women that work around the Legislature in some capacity who alleged to have had inappropriate communications from Rep. Durham,” House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick said. Durham, R-Franklin, today announced that he will resign from the House GOP caucus.  

Jeffrey Schoenblum, Centennial Professor of Law at Vanderbilt, has been elected to the Estate Planning Hall of Fame. The award is given annually by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils in recognition of significant and outstanding lifetime achievements and contributions to the practice and profession of estate planning. Schoenblum has taught trust and estate law at Vanderbilt Law School since 1977.

The appellant, William Gary Mosley, pled guilty in the Marion County Circuit Court to initiation of a process intended to result in the manufacture of methamphetamine, a Class B felony, and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor, and reserved a certified question of law concerning the sufficiency of the affidavit underlying the search warrant issued in this case. Based upon the oral arguments, the record, and the parties? briefs, we conclude that the affidavit failed to establish probable cause for the search warrant.

The Petitioner, Maria Delaluz Urbano-Uriostegui, filed in the Davidson County Criminal Court a petition for post-conviction relief from her conviction of aggravated child abuse, citing multiple issues, including ineffective assistance of counsel. The post-conviction court summarily dismissed the petition, holding that the issues raised by the Petitioner were previously determined on direct appeal. On appeal, the Petitioner challenges the post-conviction court’s ruling. Upon review, we affirm the judgment of the post- conviction court.

Petitioner, Steven Bernard Sydnor, appeals the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief from his Davidson County Criminal Court convictions for second degree murder and theft of property valued over $1000. Petitioner alleges that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in that trial counsel failed to discuss trial strategy with him and failed to present assisted suicide to the jury as a defense theory. Upon our review of the record, we affirm the decision of the post-conviction court.

Defendant, Timothy Wayne Johnson, sought relief in Warren County under a motion to correct an illegal sentence pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1. The motion was summarily denied, and Defendant timely appealed the ruling. Upon review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.