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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mike Osborne) A state lawmaker seeking to unseat a Nashville judge is getting strong pushback from some powerful legal groups.
The Nashville and the Tennessee Bar Associations have condemned a resolution offered up by Murfreesboro Republican Tim Rudd.
If passed, Rep. Rudd’s resolution could lead to the removal of Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle.
Judge Lyle forced the state to expand absentee balloting during last year’s presidential election. That decision was eventually overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Republicans called Judge Lyle’s decisions in the case judicial overreach. Statehouse Democrats and legal groups say Rudd’s resolution is an attack on an independent judiciary.
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SEVIERVILLE â Sevier County Commission voted Monday to move ahead with a lawsuit that tags major pharmaceutical companies as drug dealers and seeks compensation for the damage they have caused.
District attorneys throughout the state joined in 2017 to file civil suits that used the Tennessee Drug Dealer Liability Act to target pharmaceutical manufacturers like Purdue Pharma.
The lawsuits, filed in Campbell County, say the companies were marketing prescription painkillers to vulnerable patients and continuing to do so after those patients became addicted.
They have been called âBaby Doeâ lawsuits, because they are filed on behalf of infants harmed by their mothersâ drug use during pregnancy.