Rutherford County prosecutor Jennings Jones today said that he intends to dismiss charges against elementary school students who were taken to a juvenile detention center for allegedly taking part in off-campus bullying. The arrest, which involved handcuffing several of the children ages 9-12, sparked outrage in the community. Jones gave no reason for dropping the charges, the Associated Press reports. 

The Tennessee Department of Revenue has posted brief summaries of 2016 legislation on its website. Legislation is summarized by categories.

The Nashville Post reports Jonathan Oppenheimer, who ran drug testing laboratories OURLab and OPKO Lab, will pay more than $9.3 million to settle False Claims Act allegations. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee yesterday said that the Nashville company violated anti-kickback statutes by placing certain conditions on the financial support they were giving physician practices investing in electronic health records systems.

“Once you’re a lawyer, being normal and mentally stable is impossible,” according to Tampa attorney and blogger Jennifer Burby. On her blog, Burby rounds up 11 ways being an attorney makes you go “irrevocably crazy,” with examples like “Conversations Become Interrogations” and “Everyone Wants Free Advice.” 

“Once you’re a lawyer, being normal and mentally stable is impossible,” according to Tampa attorney and blogger Jennifer Burby. On her blog, Burby rounds up 11 ways being an attorney makes you go “irrevocably crazy,” with examples like “Conversations Become Interrogations” and “Everyone Wants Free Advice.” 

Donald Verrilli, the seventh longest serving U.S. solicitor general in American history, is resigning from his position and is expected leave at the end of this month. Verrilli’s résumé of groundbreaking cases includes his successful defense of Obamacare and his advocacy on behalf of constitutional protections for same-sex marriage. NPR reports that he will be succeed by Ian Gershengorn, his principal deputy. 

A new trial date has been set for early next year for Raynella Dossett Leath, a Knox County woman accused of killing two husbands. Leath was released from custody yesterday after posting bond. Senior Judge Paul Summers last month overturned Leath's 2010 conviction in the death of her second husband because former Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner, who presided over her trial, was later convicted in a prescription drug abuse probe. Read more from the Knoxville News Sentinel. 

Attorney General Herbert Slatery will not seek a state Supreme Court review of a Tennessee Court of Appeals ruling that deemed the state’s “gang enhancement statute” unconstitutional due to its “overly broad” language. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Slatery’s decision comes after the General Assembly passed a new version of that law that increased penalties for crimes committed by alleged gang members. Cases prosecuted under the old statute – an estimated 60 convictions in Knox County alone – are now considered flawed and all pending gang enhancement charges must be dismissed.

Court documents show Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold will plead not guilty to federal fraud charges, The Tennessean reports. Arnold and two others were indicted last week on charges including bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud and extortion related to sale of JailCigs. 

USA Today reports presumptive presidential-nominee Donald Trump and his businesses have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades. Trump and his hundreds of companies acted as the plaintiff in an estimated 1,900 of the cases. By comparison, Hillary Clinton has been named in more than 900 lawsuits, mostly as a defendant. Trump's suits involve the now-defunct Trump University, unpaid royalties in a vodka deal and an ongoing suit against the town of Palm Beach over airplane noise.