The Times Free Press outlines four recently passed bills that may be targets for vetoes from Gov. Bill Haslam. The list includes one bill that would allow mental health counselors to reject clients based on counselors’ personal principles and a resolution ordering the state to file suit against the Obama administration over the federal government's refugee resettlement program in Tennessee. The article notes last week Haslam became the first governor since 1998 to survive a veto override attempt, this time coming on a bill that sought to make the Bible the state’s official book.

This is an appeal from an order designating a primary residential parent, setting visitation and child support, and changing the child?s last name to that of Father. The juvenile court found that naming Father as primary residential parent was in the child?s best interest and determined that the child?s last name should be changed. Mother appealed both the designation of primary residential parent and the changing of the child?s last name. We affirm.

Appellant is an inmate in the Tennessee prison system; he is serving a life sentence, with the possibility of parole, for first degree murder. Appellee, the Tennessee Board of Parole, declined to recommend the Appellant for parole, citing as its reason the seriousness of his offense. Appellant filed a common law writ of certiorari in the Davidson County Chancery Court challenging the Board?s decision to deny him parole. The chancery court dismissed the petition. We affirm.

This is a premises liability action. A visitor fainted and fell into an antique, glass display case located in a retail store in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The glass in the case shattered, piercing her chest and causing her death. Her husband sued the retail store and the mall in which it operated for negligence. The defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, which the trial court granted, finding that the injuries were not reasonably foreseeable. We affirm.

The Defendant, Stevean Wilson, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, and the trial court entered the agreed sentence of six years with the manner of service of the sentence to be determined after a hearing. After the hearing, the trial court denied the Defendant an alternative sentence and ordered that he serve his sentence in confinement. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred when it denied his request for an alternative sentence. After review, we affirm the trial court?s judgment.

U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp ordered election officials Friday to recount the votes on the 2014 abortion ballot measure Amendment 1, The Associated Press reports. Sharp said the the method used to count votes was “fundamentally” unfair to the eight Tennesseans who filed a lawsuit challenging the election results. Sharp gave the state 20 days to submit a recount plan. The Tennessean reports Vanderbilt University law professor Tracy George, one of the eight plaintiffs who brought the suit, said the amendment – which made it easier to put restrictions on abortions – would fail on a recount. The federal decision came late Friday, after a Williamson County judge had upheld the vote count. Sharp said that ruling has no impact on his decision. 

A New York-based federal appeals court today ruled New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady must serve a four-game "Deflategate" suspension imposed by the NFL, CNBC reports. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Brady for the first four games of the 2015 season for his alleged role in a scheme to deflate footballs before the AFC Championship Game in January 2015. The suspension was overturned last September. The three-judge panel sided 2-1 with the NFL and said the discipline was “properly grounded in the collective bargaining agreement and Brady was treated fairly.”

Television personality Erin Andrews reached a settlement today in her lawsuit against West End Hotel Partners and Windsor Capital Group, the hotel owner and operator that allowed a stalker to secretly record her naked though a peephole. The Tennessean reports the terms of the agreement are confidential. A Nashville jury awarded Andrews $55 million in March and said Andrews’ stalker, Michael David Barrett, was responsible for $28 million of that. Attorney Randall Kinnard, who represented Andrews, had asked the judge to hold the hotel responsible for the full $55 million. 

A new study revealed Tennessee is tied with five other states in third place for the highest number of children with incarcerated parents, with Kentucky in first. The Kids Count report also found one in 10 children in Tennessee currently have or have had a parent in prison. The Tennessean reports on the state's efforts to help children with incarcerated parents, including training for schools and county health departments.