Tennessee News

A two-year-old law that limits damages that can be awarded in lawsuits is likely headed for a courtroom.

Three Tennessee women sued Wal-Mart Inc. on Tuesday claiming they lost pay and promotion opportunities because of their gender.

The Tennessee Supreme Court this week sided with a patient in a lawsuit filed by two doctors alleging malicious prosecution.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in Tennessee, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Gibson Guitar Corp. has agreed to pay the federal government $300,000 to resolve a criminal case that alleged the popular musical instrument maker illegally purchased and imported ebony wood from Madagascar and rosewood from India.

Eleven of Tennessee's 12 Court of Appeals judges have declined to be involved in an appeal of John Jay Hooker's latest effort to invalidate the state's system for selecting appeals court judges.

Making its way through the House of Representatives is a bill that could help prevent companies from experiencing what happened to mine last Aug. 24. Without warning, 30 federal agents with guns and bulletproof vests stormed our guitar factories in Tennessee. They shut down production, sent workers home, seized boxes of raw materials and nearly 100 guitars, and ultimately cost our company $2 million to $3 million worth of products and lost productivity. Why? We imported wood from India to make guitars in America.

George Soros-funded groups like Justice at Stake have been pushing to expand the so-called Missouri plan of judicial selection to new states, but so far things are moving in the opposite direction.