DAVIS, Circuit Judge. Jake Paul Heiney appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus. A jury convicted Heiney of two counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of tampering with records. After exhausting his state appellate and post-conviction remedies, he sought federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging, among other things, the sufficiency of the evidence. Heiney moved to expand the record to include all trial exhibits admitted during his state proceedings. The district court denied both his motion and his habeas petition. So Heiney appealed. This court granted a limited certificate of appealability (“COA”) to consider a single issue: whether the district court adjudicated Heiney’s petition on an incomplete record. Heiney now asks us to vacate the denial of his habeas petition, reverse the order denying his motion to expand the record, and remand for further proceedings. But because the district court appropriately considered the state court record concerning Heiney’s claims, we see no error in its denial of Heiney’s motion. We therefore AFFIRM the district court’s order denying the motion to expand the record.

Appellant sued appellees alleging breach of contract, fraud, and property damage. The trial court granted separate default judgments against the two appellees. Appellees moved the trial court to set aside the default judgments due to a lack of personal jurisdiction and due to mistake, inadvertence, or excusable neglect. The trial court set aside the default judgments over the objections of appellant, and the case proceeded to a bench trial. The trial court involuntarily dismissed appellant’s complaint at the conclusion of his case-in-chief. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

This is a case involving three individuals who all claim entitlement to time with a child: the child’s mother, the child’s biological father, and the mother’s former husband who believed himself to be the child’s biological parent for the majority of her life. After the mother disclosed the child’s parentage to both men, the biological father filed a petition to be named the child’s parent and for a parenting plan to be established. The mother agreed with his petition in all respects. But the mother’s former husband soon intervened with a petition to be awarded stepparent visitation pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 36-6-303. Following the filing of the stepparent visitation petition, the mother and the biological father, who at this point had never had any unsupervised or overnight visitation with the child, executed an agreed parenting plan in which they would share joint custody and equal parenting time with the child, as well as waive child support. After a joint hearing on both petitions, the trial court adopted the mother and biological father’s proposed parenting plan, except that the former husband was granted stepparent visitation with the child every other weekend and over the summer holiday; the former husband’s weekend visitation only occurred during the time that the proposed plan would have allotted to the mother. The mother now appeals this decision. We affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand for further proceedings.

In this interlocutory appeal, the employer questions the trial court’s decision to award benefits following an expedited hearing based on its determination that the assault the employee suffered was inherently connected to her employment. The employee sustained serious injuries when she was assaulted while loading her delivery truck at a customer’s location. The employer argued that the employee’s injuries arose from a purely personal dispute that had no connection to her employment or, in the alternative, that the incident was a random, “neutral force” assault without sufficient connection to the employment. The trial court concluded that the assault was inherently connected to the employment because it was perpetrated by the husband of a customer who inserted herself in a verbal dispute between the employee and the store manager regarding the manner in which the employee was performing her job. The employer has appealed. Having carefully considered the record and arguments of counsel, we affirm the trial court’s decision and remand the case.

In this interlocutory appeal, the employee questions the trial court’s decision on the record denying his request for additional medical and disability benefits. The employee asserted that the employer had not provided proper medical panels for treatment of his injury, that the impairment ratings were invalid, and that he was entitled to additional disability benefits. Following a review of the record, the trial court concluded that the employer had, to date, fulfilled its statutory obligation to provide all medical and disability benefits to which the employee was entitled. The employee has appealed. Having carefully reviewed the record, we affirm the trial court’s decision and remand the case.

University of Tennessee System President Randy Boyd said Tuesday the school has hired a national law firm to provide guidance on meeting federal diversity, equity and inclusion standards set by the Trump administration, Knox News reports. UT has faced accusations from federal officials that it failed to comply with DEI regulations. In July, the school initiated an independent, systemwide review of all access and engagement activities and mandated compliance training for employees. The national law firm Saul Ewing will assess the school's policies and activities to ensure they meet the administration’s requirements. Boyd also asked employees to familiarize themselves with the federal rules and respond promptly to compliance auditors and attorneys if contacted. The move comes after other Tennessee universities, including Belmont University and Vanderbilt University, have launched similar investigations.

Officials in Mason voted Tuesday to approve reopening the West Tennessee Detention Facility as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) site operated by private prison company CoreCivic. The 600-bed Tipton County facility, which closed in 2021 after the Biden administration ended Justice Department contracts with private prisons, was previously used by the U.S. Marshals Service, News Channel 9 reports. Residents shared mixed views, with some opposing the reopening and others supporting potential job growth. CoreCivic said the project could create nearly 240 jobs and generate more than $500,000 annually for local government, though no timeline has been set for reopening.

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) is using phone-hacking technology to unlock and extract data from smartphones, according to the Nashville Scene. Digital investigation software provider Magnet Forensics said last year that the department uses a suite of its products, including GrayKey, to access data from suspects’ devices. GrayKey can retrieve text messages, call logs, app data, location history and even deleted files. Murfreesboro, Smyrna and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also have licenses with Magnet Forensics. An MNPD spokesperson said about 90% of all department investigations now involve digital evidence. Digital privacy advocates warn the technology allows law enforcement to access more data than necessary for an investigation and could be abused without proper oversight.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti recently announced the launch of Operation Robocall Roundup, a bipartisan, multistate effort by the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to crack down on robocalls nationwide. Skrmetti and 50 attorneys general are sending warning letters to 37 telecommunications companies demanding they stop routing illegal robocalls through their networks. “These companies failed to meet the most basic requirements to prevent illegal robocalls, essentially rolling out the red carpet for bad actors. Our bipartisan coalition is demanding that they clean up their networks and stop facilitating these scams,” Skrmetti said in a news release. The task force also is notifying 99 other telecommunications companies that accept call traffic from the 37 noncompliant companies, alerting them they are doing business with bad actors unwilling to follow federal anti-robocall rules.

Tennessee-licensed attorney Steven Ray Minor died July 15 at age 60. Minor, from Virginia, earned his law degree from the College of William and Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 1989 and passed the bar exam that same year. He became a partner at Elliott, Lawson & Minor, where he distinguished himself in business and commercial law, civil rights law, constitutional law, employment law, litigation, personal injury defense, state and local law, municipal law, and warranty and products claims. A reception will be held at Abingdon Baptist Church, 361 W Main St, Abingdon, VA 24210 on Aug. 23 from 4 to 6 p.m. EDT.