This is a termination of parental rights case. In May 2015, the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (“DCS”) filed a petition in Sevier County Juvenile Court seeking to terminate the parental rights of the child’s father. The juvenile court found by clear and convincing evidence that termination was appropriate on the following grounds: (1) abandonment by willful failure to support; (2) severe child abuse; and (3) persistence of conditions. The juvenile court also found by clear and convincing evidence that termination was in the child’s best interests. Father appealed.

Plaintiff who brought action under the Fair Credit Reporting Act appeals the dismissal of the case on statute of limitations grounds. Discerning no error, we affirm the judgment dismissing the case.

This appeal arises out of a premises liability case involving a plaintiff who fell while exiting an auto parts store. The trial court granted the defendants? motion for summary judgment. We affirm and remand for further proceedings.

 A judge today approved sentencing Allard “Jesse” Nayadley, the assistant principal and athletic director at Ooltewah High School, for failing to report child abuse of four students. The incident happened in December while basketball team members were in Gatlinburg for a basketball tournament. Nayadley was sentenced to community service and a class on mandatory reporting. Two former Ooltewah basketball coaches were also charged for failing to report child sexual abuse, WBIR reports. 

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump said that if elected, he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would likely overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion. The Huffington Post reports Trump made the comments regarding his now pro-life stance yesterday while on Fox News with host Bill O’Reilly. 

The Tennessee Supreme Court issued a number of orders today suspending Tennessee-licensed attorneys for the following reasons: Non-Payment of Annual Registration Fee; Non-Payment of Annual Registration Fee and Non-Compliance with Mandatory IOLTA Reporting Requirements; and Non-Payment of Annual Registration Inactive Fee. A directory of administrative suspensions is available on the TBA website. 

The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended the following attorneys for failure to pay the annual inactive license fee. On Jan. 1, 2012, the court adopted amendments to Rule 9, Sections 20.1, 20.2 and 20.8. The amendments included a new requirement that lawyers assuming inactive-status must pay an annual inactive-status fee to the Board of Professional Responsibility. Pursuant to the rule, the fee is due on or before the first day of each attorney’s birth month of each year.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued a number of orders suspending Tennessee-licensed attorneys who have not paid their 2016 annual registration fee to the Board of Professional Responsibility and/or have not filed a mandatory compliance statement that eligible client funds are held in accounts participating in the Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) program. Those names appear first. The court also has issued separate orders for those attorneys who filed their IOLTA report but did not pay their fee, and those attorneys who paid their fee but did not file the IOLTA report.

Three Vanderbilt Law School students are among 40 receiving scholarships from the Nichols Humanitarian Fund to pursue humanitarian projects this summer. The recipients were: Rachel Z. Johnson of Temple, Texas; Olivia Marshall of Washington, D.C.; and Alexandre Todorov of St. Louis, Missouri. 

A copyright battle over of a 2014 short film’s use of Star Trek themes and Klingon – the language spoken by fictional humanoids – could impact legal disputes over programming languages. The Language Creation Society recently sided with the creators of Prelude to Axanar in an amicus brief, saying that if the language is copyrighted, then all ideas subsequently expressed in it could be too. Quartz explains how the lawsuit could impact software developers’ ability to copy codes and also outlines other cases where symbol copyrights are being debated.