Need a few CLE hours fast? The TBA is offering programs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 24. The Summer CLE Blast will offer 7 hours of dual CLE credit. Take as many or as few hours as you need. Registration desk will be open all day. Payment will be determined at checkout depending on the number of hours you attend. Learn more at TennBarU.

The Paris Post Intelligencer profiles two candidates for district attorney general for the 24th Judicial District. Hansel McCadams of Paris is seeking re-election for the post. He served as an assistant district attorney from 1984 to 1990. In 1990, was elected to the office of General Sessions/Juvenile Court judge for Henry County, and was re-elected in 1998. McCadams was elected as DA in 2006 and said throughout his term the 24th District has maintained a crime rate below the state average according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics. Matt Stowe of Benton County is also running for the seat. He worked as a prosecutor in Boston, as well as serving the people of Texas as deputy solicitor general. He taught criminal law and criminal procedure at Cornell Law School and currently teaches ethics classes and criminal justice classes at Bethel University.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee is looking for people interested in challenging a new law mandating drug tests for some applicants for the state's Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. ACLU-Tennessee said the law, which took effect July 1, raises “serious constitutional concerns" and singles out limited-income people. Executive Director Hedy Weinberg said in a statement that research indicates TANF recipients "are no more likely to use illicit drugs than farmers, veterans, and students, who also receive government support.”

Law schools admitted 39,675 first-year students last year, the smallest incoming class since the 1970s. That number represents an 11 percent drop from the prior year and a 24 percent drop in three years. According to figures from the Law School Admission Council, the number of applicants for the first-year class in 2014 has dropped nearly 8 percent from last year. Bucking the trend are Harvard Law School and students who score high on the Law School Admission Test. More high-scoring students are applying to law school, and applications to Harvard’s law school are up significantly this year, the ABA Journal reports. At least one school -- Thomas M. Cooley Law School's Ann Arbor, Michigan, campus -- is not enrolling any first-years this fall.

Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit today in federal court against Attorney General Eric Holder and other U.S. officials. They contend it is "fundamentally unfair" to require children facing deportation hearings to proceed without legal representation and are seeking a court order requiring the Department of Justice to arrange to provide defense counsel for juveniles throughout the country. Recently the Obama Administration said that protections for unaccompanied immigrant children in a sex-trafficking law are partly responsible for tying the government’s hands in dealing with the current influx of children crossing the border alone. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, signed into law by then-president George W. Bush, was originally pushed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers as well as by evangelical groups to combat sex trafficking. The bill gave substantial new protections to children entering the country alone who were not from Mexico or Canada by prohibiting them from being quickly sent back to their country of origin. The ABA Journal has more from the New York Times.

Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Gary Wade called an effort by Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey to have him unseated from the bench in the upcoming August election “different and disconcerting” during an interview with the Bristol Herald Courier yesterday. Ramsey has led a public campaign urging voters not to retain Wade and fellow justices Connie Clark and Sharon Lee. Wade, who was appointed by Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, said the legislation providing for a retention system for Supreme Court justices was designed to remove partisan politics from the appellate court system, but Ramsey’s tactics have changed the process this year. “I guess we are getting a lesson in hardball politics,” Wade said.

The city of Chattanooga has filed notice that it plans to appeal a decision by Circuit Court Judge Neil Thomas on the issue of wording on the Domestic Partners Benefits Ordinance referendum, the Chattanoogan reports. Judge Thomas ruled Monday morning that the referendum will proceed as drafted by the group that gained signatures to put it on the ballot.

The federal director of Medicaid programs is giving Tennessee 10 days to submit a correction plan after failing to provide services for people as required by the Affordable Care Act. The Tennessean reports that the crux of the problem concerns delays with bringing a $35 million computer system online. Tennessee is also criticized for not providing people with face-to-face help in applying and for not setting up a program that allows hospitals to temporarily enroll people in Medicaid if they are presumed eligible.

The Petitioner, Antwon Cook, appeals the Bradley County Criminal Court’s denial of his petition for a writ of error coram nobis regarding his convictions for possession of more than one-half gram of cocaine with the intent to sell and sale of more than one-half gram of cocaine, for which he is serving an effective eight-year sentence. The Petitioner contends that the trial court erred by denying him relief. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.