A team of FBI agents, federal prosecutors and attorneys from the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division in Washington D.C. will conduct a review of the shooting of Darrius Stewart by Memphis police officer Connor Schilling. Federal authorities announced Monday the review will be “independent, impartial and thorough,” The Commerical Appeal reports. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation file of the case was posted yesterday for public review at the website of Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich. 

The Tennessee Supreme Court issued an opinion on Dec. 14 explaining when out-of-state businesses may be sued in Tennessee. The unanimous opinion follows First Community Bank suing several in-state and out-of-state financial service providers after the bank lost millions of dollars in investments. The court found that First Community was unable to establish that Tennessee courts have jurisdiction over certain out-of-state providers. However, it sent the case back to trial court for First Community to conduct additional discovery under new guidelines outlined in the opinion. Read more from the court.

Attorney T. Scott Jones filed a lawsuit on behalf of John and Candi Hall that seeks $7.5 million in damages following the 2014 shooting death of the couple’s son, Evan Hall, in West Knox County.  WBIR reports that the suit accuses Bailey's Sports Grille of illegally serving alcohol to the 19-year-old. The suit also names shooting suspect Jack Bush and his parents.

The Tennessee Supreme Court Board of Professional Responsibility issued a formal opinion Friday stating that lawyers have an ethical obligation to preserve client files and return them or permit access to them if requested by the client. The opinion notes there is no Rule of Professional Conduct in Tennessee that requires a lawyer to retain client files for more than five years following the end of representation. Read the opinion here.

Just City will hold a fundraising event tonight in Memphis for the nonprofit’s Clean Slate Fund, which helps nonviolent ex-offenders expunge their criminal records. “Wonder” is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 6 p.m. at Amurica, 410 N. Cleveland. Read more from The Commercial Appeal.

House Majority Whip Jeremy Durham, R-Franklin, asked a federal judge for a lenient sentence for a former youth pastor convicted of possessing child porn. The Associated Press reports that Joseph Todd Neill, who previously worked at North Fork Baptist Church in Shelbyville, was sentenced to more than three years in prison. A grand jury last week declined to indict Durham on prescription fraud charges.

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey told reporters Friday he believes Department of Correction Commissioner Derrick Schofield should no longer hold his position, The Times Free Press reports. Schofield has been criticized for prison staff schedules and legal definitions of officer-on-guard assaults. Ramsey noted it was ultimately up to Gov. Bill Haslam to decide if Schofield will remain commissioner but said, "There are times that come in every department where a change at the top would help.”

The Tennessean reports that deaths from prescription painkillers increased in 2014, despite efforts by state lawmakers over the last year to curb the problem. The new statistics on overdoses by prescription painkillers were released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will review state laws that make it a crime to refuse to take a blood alcohol test if the officer does not have a warrant, The Washington Post reports. Challengers in the case from North Dakota say the laws violate Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. The court also announced it will review a challenge to the federal government’s ability to define wetlands.

In a letter addressed to Maury County commissioners, the Columbia City Council expressed concerns about the proposed relocation of the Maury County Courthouse to the Columbia Mall. The proposed site is located at 800 South James Campbell Blvd. “By taking this property off the tax rolls, it would negatively impact future tax collections to the city, county and Maury County school system,” the letter reads. “Further, city officials have been in discussion with the mall ownership during this past year regarding redevelopment of the property.” Read more from The Daily Herald.