The Tennessean outlines five examples of bills the legislature approved this year that will alter or reverse their earlier actions. Legislative topics include wine in supermarkets, spiritual treatment and horse racing in Tennessee. 

A lawsuit alleging Facebook’s photo-tagging feature invades users' privacy can move forward against Facebook’s wishes, a San Francisco federal judge ruled yesterday. "The Court accepts as true plaintiffs’ allegations that Facebook’s face recognition technology involves a scan of face geometry that was done without plaintiffs’ consent," U.S. District Judge James Donato wrote in the ruling. Facebook argues that photo-tagging is disclosed in its terms of service and that users can opt out of it at any time, USA Today reports. 

Some Nashville community members are outraged over plans to temporarily house inmates this summer in existing buildings off Harding Place, The Tennessean reports. Residents cited concerns last night at a community meeting about safety of neighborhoods and the loss of use of Ezell Park, where staff from the sheriff’s office will move their operations for a projected three years.

Murfreesboro attorney Lisa Eischeid joined the race for the newly created Rutherford County General Sessions judgeship, WGNS reports. The new judgeship will be located at the jail to oversee pre-trial release of those currently charged and awaiting trial there. Three other attorneys — Lisa Bell, Kirk D. Catron and Thomas D. "Tom" Frost have entered the race. Eischeid is the founding attorney of Eischeid Law Office and has represented clients in the areas of litigation, family law, personal injury and criminal defense.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders once again reiterated that, if elected, he would only consider nominating someone to the U.S. Supreme Court if they publicly committed to overturning Citizens United. Sanders added that he would ask President Obama to withdraw his nomination of Merrick Garland, Today's General Counsel reports. 

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and the newest addition to his defense group – former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson – were granted a 14-day extension earlier this week for the NFL Player’s Association to file a motion for a rehearing by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Brady is seeking to overturn the appeals court’s April 25 ruling that required a four-game "Deflategate" suspension imposed by the NFL. Olson has won several high-profile cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including Citizens United and Bush v. Gore. Read more from the Boston Herald and the ABA Journal. 

International corporate law firm Kirkland & Ellis announced it will offer “emotional fitness training” to attorneys in all of its U.S. offices, the ABA Journal reports. The program – Life XT – includes workshops on improving emotional coping skills, seminars on yoga and meditation sessions in a conference room. The firm made the announcement following a trial program in its Chicago office. 

The ABA Journal reports that out of everyone who graduated from ABA-accredited law schools in 2015, 70 percent have full-time, long-term employment positions that require or prefer a law degree. Data released earlier this week by the ABA’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar notes the class of 2015 was 8.8 percent smaller than the class of 2014, where 69 percent of graduates were in the same position. The data also showed a decline in law-firm hiring. “(The data) shows that the employment market remains challenging for recent graduates even as law schools are substantially reducing enrollment,” said Barry Currier, ABA’s managing director of accreditation and legal education.  

A Shelby County Criminal Court Jury convicted the appellant, Larry Malone, of theft of property valued $10,000 or more but less than $60,000 and vandalism of property valued $10,000 or more but less than $60,000, Class C felonies. On appeal, the appellant claims that the evidence is insufficient to support the convictions. Based upon the record and the parties? briefs, the appellant?s conviction of felony theft is modified to theft of property valued $500 or less, a Class A misdemeanor. The appellant?s felony vandalism conviction is affirmed.

The appellant, AAAA Bonding Company, LLC, appeals the Rutherford County Circuit Court’s revocation of its authority to write bail bonds. The State concedes that the trial court erred because the evidence failed to show that the owner of the company and his wife, the circuit court clerk, commingled funds and, therefore, that she received an indirect benefit from his ownership of the company to justify the revocation.