A Tennessee judge on Monday cited a “tainted juror” when he granted a mistrial in the case of two football players found guilty in the rape of an unconscious woman.
Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk worked more than 25 years as a criminal defense lawyer before taking office in September. Now, many of his new hires come from the same…
A divided federal appeals court panel has overturned the sabotage convictions of an 85-year-old nun and two others who protested in 2012 at a Tennessee nuclear plant.
Two Tennessee lawyers have been convicted of extortion for threatening a client with an arrest for theft of services in a bid to collect $50,000 in legal fees.
Updated: A legal opinion by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery says a proposal to make the Bible the official book of Tennessee would violate the state and federal constitutions.
A federal court filing by a hospital litigating a failed management agreement with another medical facility says its former lawyer was secretly communicating with the opposing party during negotiations of…
It appears that a former TV-show judge may be headed back to the slammer over a Tennessee juvenile-court outburst last year, in which he talked himself into an escalated five-day…
For the second time in less than three years, a growing Mississippi-based law firm with national and international offices has expanded its footprint in Nashville, Tennessee.
Two former football players at Vanderbilt University were found guilty of rape on Tuesday in the sexual assault of an unconscious woman that was recorded on a cellphone.
A defense lawyer in the rape trial of two former Vanderbilt University football players is blaming college culture for encouraging binge drinking and promiscuity.