An inspector general report claims staff error resulted in 152 federal inmates being set free after their correct release dates between 2009 and 2014. The Associated Press said employees misapplied credit for time served. The report, released today, counted a total of 4,340 Bureau of Prisons inmates who received "untimely" releases during those years.

A pair of Memphis attorneys have asked Chief U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan to issue an arrest warrant for an undocumented immigrant, who is currently missing with her son. The request is on behalf of the boy’s father. Varlan last month ordered the mother, who was living illegally in Knoxville, to return the boy to Mexico in a rare case brought under The Hague Convention of 1980 International Child Abduction Remedies Act. Read more from the Knoxville News Sentinel. 

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld an order requiring the state’s Medicaid program to provide applicants with a fair hearing if it cannot process their requests on time. The state had appealed a temporary order issued in 2014 by a federal judge in Nashville that required the state to provide hearings to those whose applications were not timely processed. The judge also granted the class-action status, the Associated Press reports. By law, applications for most forms of Medicaid should be processed within 45 days.

“In the world of personal injury law wearable tech may become a pivotal element in bringing justice to those who have become victims,” according to Law Technology Today. The article explores the use of items like Smartwatches when making a personal injury claim, along with the possible issues that could arise from misusing the technology.  

Juvenile advocates say that juveniles rarely understand Miranda rights, even though several studies show they waive their rights at the rate of 90 percent. The ABA Journal takes a closer look at the issue, reporting there is no set script for the warnings, the wording varies widely and that at least half of the scripts require an eighth grade reading level. 

The Defendant-Appellant, Jeffrey Wayne Moore, entered a guilty plea to driving under the influence (DUI) in exchange for a sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days to be served on probation after the service of forty-eight hours in jail. As a condition of his plea, Moore reserved a certified question of law challenging the denial of his motion to suppress, which was based upon an alleged unconstitutional seizure. Following our review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

This appeal arises from the termination of Mother’s parental rights. Mother’s two children were removed from Mother on an emergency basis. A court later adjudicated the children dependent and neglected based on the stipulation of Mother. After the children had been in State custody for nearly eight months, the Department of Children’s Services petitioned to terminate Mother’s parental rights. Following a trial, the juvenile court found that two statutory grounds existed to terminate Mother’s rights—substantial noncompliance with the permanency plan and persistent conditions.

Appellant, an inmate at a state prison operated by a private contractor, filed the underlying pro se petition for a writ of certiorari to challenge the result of a disciplinary proceeding against him. The trial court dismissed the petition against the private contractor?s employees on the ground that these employees could not impose punishment on the inmate under Tennessee Code Annotated Section 41-24-110(5) and were, thus, not proper parties to the petition.

Bass Berry & Sims, Nashville’s largest firm, has retained another Nashville firm to help fight a proposed 40-story skyscraper downtown. Todd Rolapp, the firm's managing partner, argues that the plans for the tower “do not comport with city land-use policy,” The Nashville Business Journal reports. Metro’s Planning Commission is set later this week to decide whether to allow developers to build the $325 million project.