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Access-To-Justice Challenges For Expungement In Tennessee, Joy Radice Jun 2018

Access-To-Justice Challenges For Expungement In Tennessee, Joy Radice

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Experiencing Experiential Education: A Faculty-Student Perspective On The University Of Tennessee College Of Law's Adventure In Access To Justice Author, Robert C. Blitt Oct 2016

Experiencing Experiential Education: A Faculty-Student Perspective On The University Of Tennessee College Of Law's Adventure In Access To Justice Author, Robert C. Blitt

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This article functions both as a brief history lesson in experiential education and as a case study of an experiential course entitled “Human Rights Practicum” offered at the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2015. After briefly discussing historical and current trends in law school reform, including the rise of experiential education within the law school curriculum and the role played by technology in this context, the article turns to explore the impetus for the Human Rights Practicum, its development and implementation, as well as the software technology used to develop its final work product, a web-based “guided interview” …


Tennessee Workers: Dying For A Job, Fran Ansley Jan 2016

Tennessee Workers: Dying For A Job, Fran Ansley

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Abortion, Amendment 1, And The Future Of Procreational Rights Under The Tennessee Constitution, Glenn Harlan Reynolds Oct 2015

Abortion, Amendment 1, And The Future Of Procreational Rights Under The Tennessee Constitution, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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Registering Trade And Service Marks In Tennessee: A Brief How-To Guide, Brian Krumm, Zackarij R. Gardner Apr 2015

Registering Trade And Service Marks In Tennessee: A Brief How-To Guide, Brian Krumm, Zackarij R. Gardner

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Talking Union In Two Languages Labor Rights And Immigrant Workers In East Tennessee, Fran Ansley Jan 2012

Talking Union In Two Languages Labor Rights And Immigrant Workers In East Tennessee, Fran Ansley

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Contested Elections As Secret Weapon: Legislative Control Over Judicial Decision-Making, Judy Cornett Jan 2012

Contested Elections As Secret Weapon: Legislative Control Over Judicial Decision-Making, Judy Cornett

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The current interbranch tensions in the federal government have been just as potent, if not more so, at the state level. Legislative challenges to state judiciaries are accumulating nationwide. In one state, Tennessee, the newly-elected Republican majority in the General Assembly has flexed its legislative muscle in several ways, ranging from the outright hostile – threatening the imposition of contested elections for the state’s appellate judges and a takeover of the body that governs judicial conduct – to the more sublime. A less-publicized, but no less significant, step that the legislature took in 2011 was to overrule a recent decision …


Redefining Summary Judgment By Statute: The Legislative History Of Tennessee Code Annotated Section 20-16-101, Judy Cornett Jan 2012

Redefining Summary Judgment By Statute: The Legislative History Of Tennessee Code Annotated Section 20-16-101, Judy Cornett

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In 2011, the Tennessee General Assembly – the first majority Republican legislature in the state since Reconstruction – passed two bills purporting to legislatively overrule recent decisions of the Tennessee Supreme Court that the legislature deemed unfriendly to business interests. This article examines the legislative history of one of those bills. Public Chapter No. 498, codified as Tennessee Code Annotated section 20-16-101, attempts to change the summary judgment standard adopted by the Tennessee Supreme Court in Hannan v. Alltel Publishing Co., 270 S.W.3d 1 (Tenn. 2008). In Hannan, the Supreme Court explicitly rejected the federal Celotex standard for burden-shifting on …


Understanding The New Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act: Stimulating Economic Growth At The Intersection Of Free Market Capitalism And Government Intervention, Brian Krumm Apr 2010

Understanding The New Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act: Stimulating Economic Growth At The Intersection Of Free Market Capitalism And Government Intervention, Brian Krumm

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Bills Of Sale In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Bill Of Sale, Joan Macleod Heminway Apr 2008

Bills Of Sale In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Bill Of Sale, Joan Macleod Heminway

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The coauthors have constructed a model bill of sale for use in connection with acquisitions, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to serve as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This instrument is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law beginning in 2003.


Guns And Gay Sex: Some Notes On Firearms, The Second Amendment, And 'Reasonable Regulation', Glenn Harlan Reynolds Oct 2007

Guns And Gay Sex: Some Notes On Firearms, The Second Amendment, And 'Reasonable Regulation', Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in Heller v. District of Columbia, this Essay contains some thoughts inspired by Adam Winkler's "Scrutinizing the Second Amendment," 105 Mich. L. Rev. 683 (2007). Winkler argues, correctly, that judicial acceptance of an individual-rights interpretation of the Second Amendment would not end all firearms regulation. However, Winkler's understanding of what constitutes "reasonable regulation" is excessively broad. In "Guns and Gay Sex," I look at two overlapping lines of Tennessee cases on the right to arms and the right to privacy and conclude that even a "reasonable regulation" model of the right …


Studying The Death Penalty In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons Jun 2007

Studying The Death Penalty In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons

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Successor Liability In Tennessee, George Kuney May 2007

Successor Liability In Tennessee, George Kuney

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Acquisition Licenses In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Acquisition License Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway Apr 2007

Acquisition Licenses In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Acquisition License Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway

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The coauthors have constructed a model license agreement for use in connection with acquisitions, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to serve as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This agreement is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law beginning in 2003.


Acquisition Escrows In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Acquisition Escrow Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway Apr 2006

Acquisition Escrows In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Acquisition Escrow Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway

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The coauthors have constructed a model escrow agreement for use in acquisitions, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to be used as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This agreement is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law beginning in 2003.


States Beginning To Recognize That Training Is Essential For Members Of Planning And Zoning Boards And Local Legislative Bodies, Patricia E. Salkin Jan 2006

States Beginning To Recognize That Training Is Essential For Members Of Planning And Zoning Boards And Local Legislative Bodies, Patricia E. Salkin

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Members of planning and zoning boards and local legislative bodies constantly make decisions that may be worth millions of dollars to applicants and that may have serious impacts on public health and safety. Unlike other players in the land use decision making process members of local legislative bodies and land use boards have no specific education or training in land use matters prior to their election or appointment putting them in the position to learn solely from “on the job training”. Five (5) states currently require mandatory training and continuing education courses for members of planning boards and zoning boards …


License, Intellectual Property, Asset Purchase, Acquisition, Disposition, Contract Drafting, Tennessee, Joan Macleod Heminway Apr 2005

License, Intellectual Property, Asset Purchase, Acquisition, Disposition, Contract Drafting, Tennessee, Joan Macleod Heminway

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The coauthors have constructed a model bank merger agreement, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to be used as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This agreement is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law beginning in 2003.


Buying Stock In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Stock Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway Apr 2004

Buying Stock In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Stock Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway

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The coauthors have constructed a model stock purchase agreement, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to be used as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This agreement is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by 'Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law' beginning in 2003.


Buying Assets In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Asset Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway, Angela Humphreys Hamilton Apr 2003

Buying Assets In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Asset Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway, Angela Humphreys Hamilton

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The coauthors have constructed a model asset purchase agreement, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to be used as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This agreement is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law beginning in 2003.


Pioneers In The Legal Profession: Some Of The First African-American And Women Lawyers In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons Nov 1999

Pioneers In The Legal Profession: Some Of The First African-American And Women Lawyers In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons

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Freeing Property Owners From The Rap Trap: Tennessee Adopts The Uniform, Amy Morris Hess Jan 1995

Freeing Property Owners From The Rap Trap: Tennessee Adopts The Uniform, Amy Morris Hess

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Rodney King And The Decriminalization Of Police Brutality In America: Direct And Judicial Access To The Grand Jury As Remedies For Victims Of Police Brutality When The Prosecutor Declines To Prosecute, Peter L. Davis Jan 1994

Rodney King And The Decriminalization Of Police Brutality In America: Direct And Judicial Access To The Grand Jury As Remedies For Victims Of Police Brutality When The Prosecutor Declines To Prosecute, Peter L. Davis

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This Article begins with the premise that, despite political rhetoric and occasional prosecutions to the contrary, police brutality has been effectively decriminalized in this country. The Article adopts the Rodney King case as the paradigm for examining this phenomenon. Scrutinizing the culture and semantics of police brutality, the author concludes that a double standard of criminality exists in the United States, under which different rules apply to a police than to everyone else. This double standard is socially dysfunctional. Particularly among minorities, it leads to a sense of cynicism about our legal system that can result in civil disorder when …


Criminal Law In Tennessee In 1980 - A Critical Survey, Joseph G. Cook Apr 1981

Criminal Law In Tennessee In 1980 - A Critical Survey, Joseph G. Cook

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Civil Procedure - Res Judicata - Effect Of Dismissal With Prejudice, Judy Cornett Jan 1981

Civil Procedure - Res Judicata - Effect Of Dismissal With Prejudice, Judy Cornett

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Criminal Law In Tennessee In 1979 - A Critical Survey, Joseph G. Cook Oct 1980

Criminal Law In Tennessee In 1979 - A Critical Survey, Joseph G. Cook

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New Rules Of Appellate Procedure Became Effective July 1, John Sobieski Aug 1979

New Rules Of Appellate Procedure Became Effective July 1, John Sobieski

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An Update Of The New Tennessee Rules Of Appellate Procedure, John Sobieski Jul 1979

An Update Of The New Tennessee Rules Of Appellate Procedure, John Sobieski

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Criminal Law In Tennessee In 1977-1978 - A Critical Survey, Joseph G. Cook Apr 1979

Criminal Law In Tennessee In 1977-1978 - A Critical Survey, Joseph G. Cook

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A Survey Of Civil Procedure In Tennessee - 1977, John Sobieski Jan 1979

A Survey Of Civil Procedure In Tennessee - 1977, John Sobieski

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The Procedural Details Of The Proposed Tennessee Rules Of Appellate Procedure, John Sobieski Oct 1978

The Procedural Details Of The Proposed Tennessee Rules Of Appellate Procedure, John Sobieski

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