Tennessee Conservative
For Conservatives Who Believed That This Bill Was Going To Solidify Parental Rights In The State Of Tennessee And Protect Children From Predators Who Infringe Upon The Parent’s Right To Consent To Education, Medical Care, Mental Health Treatments, And More (The Bill Enumerated One Through Twelve), You Were Wrong.
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State Lawyers Are Seeking To Dismiss A Legal Challenge To A Tennessee House Of Representatives Rule Banning Protest Signs At The Legislature, Arguing That Since The Rules Applied Only To A Special Session That Has Now Ended The Case Is Moot.
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Shortly After A Lawsuit Was Filed By 8 Families Saying That Parents Being Able To Make The Choice Whether To Send Their Children To School Without Masks Was A Violation Of Their Rights, A New Tennessee Law Was Passed That Effectively Made Their Case Moot. However, The Legal Fees Associated With Their Case Didn’t Disappear And A Court Has Ruled That Taxpayers Are Now Responsible For Covering Them.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta Is Leading A Coalition Of 20 States Opposing What They Describe As “Anti-Transgender” Laws In Tennessee And Kentucky Blocking Children From Undergoing Medical Procedures That Are Given To Enable That Minors To Live With A Gender Identity Different Than That Noted On Their Birth Certificate, Such As Puberty Blocking Hormones And Gender Change Surgeries.
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In Tennessee, Ford Motor Company Was Approved For $884 Million In Incentives For Its $5.6 Billion Project A Year Ago. The State Has Given Out At Least Five Grants Of $1 Million Or More In 2022. A New Report States That The Economic Impact Reports Used To Support Incentive Decisions Are Consistently Inaccurate And Inflated.
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The Tennessee State Supreme Court Unveiled Their New Justice Bus On Monday. The New Program Was Created To Provide Legal Assistance To Underserved Communities Across The State.
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Elite Lawyers Can Channel Their Inner William Kunstler From Their Posh Corner Offices, But They Are Kidding Themselves If They Think That Their Efforts Are “For The Public Good.” Who, If Anyone, Really Benefits From Homeless Encampments In Countless Blighted Cities? Certainly Not The Cities’ Residents, And Arguably Not Even The Troubled, Dysfunctional People Now Permitted To Live In Dangerous, Squalid, Disease-Ridden, Open-Air Drug Dens.
Pro Bono Work Has Strayed Far From Its Intended Mission Of Helping Poor People With Routine Legal Problems. It Has Become Corporate-Subsidized Political Advocacy On A Vast Scale. If Law Firms Wish To Help Those Less Well-Off, They Should Give Money—Out Of Their Own Coffers, As Some Currently Do—To Legal-Aid Organizations That Are Both Designed And Equipped To Serve The Populations Needing Assistance, With Appropriate Supervision And Case Selection, And A Greater Emphasis On Client Satisfaction.
A Chattanooga Jury Unanimously Found A Texas Law Firm, Its Owner, And Agents Liable For Consumer Protection Violations And The Unauthorized Practice Of Law Arising Out Of Their Actions In Soliciting Families Of The Fatal 2016 School Bus Crash In Chattanooga.
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