A federal judge in Tennessee has dismissed the United States and its Natural Resources Conservation Service from a landlocked hunting property dispute, ruling the Quiet Title Act bars prescriptive easement claims against the government and the plaintiffs...
The United States and NRCS win dismissal from a suit over access to a hunting parcel near Locust Grove Road in Dyer County.
A federal judge in Tennessee granted adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings’ motion for early discovery but attached a protective order designed to prevent the company from using the threat of unmasking a defendant to force a settlement.
A federal judge in Tennessee granted adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings' motion for early discovery against an anonymous defendant, but imposed strict protective conditions to curb the company's "suggestive" pattern of coercive settlement practices and...
A federal judge denied Shelby County’s motion for summary judgment in an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit brought by a former deputy jailer, finding genuine disputes over whether the county engaged interactive process and whether suitable job...
A federal magistrate judge in Memphis denied an employment discrimination plaintiff's request for additional discovery, ruling that his failure to investigate a known hiring freeze defense did not constitute excusable neglect.
A federal judge has preliminarily approved a $44.4 million settlement between AME Church clergy plaintiffs and Symetra Life Insurance Company, resolving claims that Symetra helped facilitate a two-decade scheme that drained roughly $90 million from the...
A federal judge denied BNSF Railway's motion for summary judgment in a whistleblower retaliation case brought by a carman who says he was fired after reporting that an outbound train had not been properly tied down.
A federal judge in Tennessee denied BNSF Railway Company’s motion for summary judgment in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit brought by a railroad carman who reported an improperly secured train.
The Western District of Tennessee has granted preliminary approval of a $44.4 million class action settlement between plaintiffs and Symetra Life Insurance Company, resolving claims that the insurer facilitated the misappropriation of tens of millions of...
A pro se candidate's First and Fourteenth Amendment challenge to Tennessee's ballot-designation statutes remains pending, but his bid for emergency relief was denied on procedural grounds.