A federal judge in Chattanooga preliminarily approved a $1.75 million class action settlement against Lee University, resolving claims from 136,928 individuals whose private information was accessed in a 2024 ransomware attack.
A federal magistrate judge in Tennessee rejected the City of Knoxville’s argument that the mayor’s official duties shield her from discovery in a lawsuit alleging she orchestrated the shutdown of a bar owner’s business in retaliation for his political speech.
A Tennessee federal judge ruled that a DCS team leader who never set foot at the jail — but made calls that helped set a child removal in motion — must face a jury on constitutional claims.
A federal magistrate judge in Tennessee has denied Buncombe County, North Carolina’s motion to compel UnitedHealthcare and related entities to produce customer data in a putative class action alleging upcoding fraud by Team Health.
A federal judge dismissed a public-use Takings Clause claim in a dispute over the condemnation of a Tennessee property but allowed civil rights conspiracy and First Amendment retaliation claims to proceed against private defendants.
The Eastern District of Tennessee denied Bedford County’s motion for summary judgment in a USERRA lawsuit brought by Skylar Wamsley, finding genuine issues of material fact regarding whether his military service motivated his termination and whether a...
A federal judge in Nashville has transferred an employment-discrimination lawsuit against the managing contractor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the Eastern District of Tennessee, where the alleged misconduct occurred.