This appeal arises from a default judgment entered in a divorce action, wherein the wife was granted, inter alia, a permanent order of protection against the husband. The husband sought to have the permanent order of protection provision contained in the parties? divorce decree set aside, asserting that the statutory scheme pertaining to orders of protection did not provide authority for entry of a permanent, open-ended order of protection. The trial court entered an order denying relief to the husband and affirming its entry of a permanent order of protection. Husband timely appealed.

Inmate brought petition under Tennessee Public Records Act seeking review of the District Attorney General’s handling of his request that he be furnished copies of records relating to his prosecution. The trial court held that the Attorney General did not deny the request but, rather, that the petitioner failed to advance the costs of copying the records and, accordingly, was not entitled to relief. Finding no error, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

In this divorce action, Husband contends the trial court erred by granting Wife a divorce on the grounds of Husband?s inappropriate marital conduct despite the fact he was found guilty of, inter alia, three counts of rape of a child while the divorce was pending. Husband also takes issue with the classification of property, the division of marital property, and the award of alimony to Wife. We affirm the trial court in all respects.

We granted an extraordinary appeal to consider a trial court?s refusal to dismiss a petition to terminate parental rights. Following their divorce, the child?s father filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of the mother. The mother moved to dismiss for lack of standing. In response, the father amended his petition to add his mother, the child?s grandmother, as an additional petitioner. The mother renewed her motion to dismiss. We reverse the trial court?s denial of the motion to dismiss because both the father and his mother lack standing.

“It is all but certain the seat will remain vacant until after U.S. elections in November,” Bloomberg predicts as the outlet reports television ad spending to support Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland has plummeted in the last two weeks. Fourteen Republican Senators have met with Garland, but just two support a public hearing on his nomination. 

The retrial of Michael Rimmer, who was sentenced to death 17 years ago for killing his girlfriend, began today in Shelby County Criminal Court. The Commercial Appeal reports Rimmer’s new trial was ordered in 2012 after a judge found Rimmer’s counsel failed to effectively investigate the case. A judge also found Shelby County attorney Thomas Henderson, who prosecuted Rimmer, "purposefully misled" Rimmer’s defense counsel about evidence. 

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP will now be known as Bradley. The firm is the third largest in Nashville by local attorneys, according to the Nashville Business Journal. The firm operates with around 500 attorneys in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. “Our Nashville office was founded in 1910 as Boult Cummings Conners & Berry and is proud to continue growing as Bradley," Nashville Managing Partner Lela Hollabaugh said in a press release announcing the change.

The Petitioner, Paul David Childs, appeals as of right from the Davidson County Criminal Court?s dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief. The Petitioner contends that he received ineffective assistance from his trial counsel.

Cynthia Elliott (“Employee”) alleged that she sustained a compensable aggravation of her preexisting knee arthritis because of a fall that occurred in the course of her employment at Goodyear (“Employer”). Employer provided medical care for several months through its workers? compensation carrier1 but then denied the claim for right knee total replacement surgery as well as her claim for disability benefits, based on the opinion of the treating physician that the fall did not aggravate or advance the preexisting condition.

Following a borrower’s default on a loan agreement, Regions Bank (“Regions”) accelerated the loan and filed this lawsuit against the loan’s guarantors to collect the amounts due. After Regions sold the collateral securing the loan, it sought a judgment for the remaining deficiency. This is the second appeal of this case to this Court. Although the trial court awarded Regions a deficiency judgment prior to the first appeal, we vacated that award upon concluding that Regions had failed to provide sufficient notice to the guarantors prior to its disposition of the collateral.