KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - A Tennessee judge who called his opponent “a morally bankrupt soul” during a hard-fought election must recuse himself from hearing cases involving the lawyer, an appeals court ruled, but no such restrictions apply to the lawyer’s firm.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - A company that provided trucks and cast trailers to production crews filming “Law and Order” and other shows must pay the firm that owned the vehicles more than $100,000 after breaking a revenue-sharing agreement, a Tennessee appeals court ruled.