TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 12, 2017
A bill that would create a legislative committee to study unsolved civil rights cold cases was signed into law by Gov. Bill Haslam on June 6. The Tennessee Civil Rights Cold Case Act will see a joint legislative committee of six, three appointed each from the House and Senate, which will research the cases and report to the legislature in 2018. The committee has yet to be named and a hearing schedule is to be determined.
Attachments: