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. 

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.  

Former Vanderbilt football player Brandon Walthour is suing the university, the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA after allegedly suffering numerous concussions during his time with the program. His suit, which includes claims of negligence and breach of contract, seeks damages for medical expenses and more. The lawsuit is one of six filed nationwide by the Houston firm Raizner Slania, Nashville Post reports. 

Rep. John Mark Windle, D-Livingston, today said state prisons “need to tell us who has hepatitis C,” The Tennessean reports. Windle’s comments come in the face of a hepatitis C epidemic previously reported by The Tennessean. The source reports only a fraction of roughly 21,000 inmates in the state have been tested for the disease. 

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a black death-row inmate's claim of racial bias in jury selection. The 7-1 verdict, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, said prosecutors unconstitutionally barred all potential black jurors from the Georgia man’s trial nearly 30 years ago. Defense attorneys later discovered the bias through a series of prosecution notes obtained through an open-records request. USA Today notes that this happened one year after the court’s landmark 1986 ruling in Batson v. Kentucky that declared such actions unconstitutional. 

Members of the University of Tennessee College of Law’s Pro Bono program performed more than 10,000 hours of pro bono legal service over the last year for charitable and nonprofit organizations. This year's hours surpassed last year’s record of 8,764. 

The deadline for mailing Affidavits of Completion and paying all fees to the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education is May 31 in order to avoid the $200 late fee for 2015 compliance. The TBA is offering two live CLE events this week and a broad selection of online courses to help those in need of CLE hours.