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Best Practices Construction Law
Your Price Tells a Story: What a Tennessee AG Opinion Teaches Contractors about Public Contracting
Every contractor has seen the number that makes the room go quiet. Two proposals are relatively close, and the third is 30 percent lower. The first reaction usually isn’t, “Great.…
Best Practices Construction Law
The Drawing Changed. Did You Catch It? A Hard Lesson for Contractors About Revised Plans
Every contractor has seen it. A revised drawing hits your inbox. You open the sheet, look for the clouds, figure out what changed, and move on. But what if something…
Best Practices Construction Law
Your Construction Contract Won’t Always Save You From a Bad Project Record
Construction contracts are full of protections. No-damage-for-delay clauses. Consequential damage waivers. Rights to supplement a subcontractor’s work. Broad scheduling provisions. But a recent Tennessee construction case provides an important reminder:…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
How Dolly Parton’s Death Set Off a Legal Feud Surrounding Her Nephew
By Teddy Groce
Before Dolly Parton died, her nephew was virtually unknown to the public, a bodyguard in a suit jacket and sunglasses who would usher the country music superstar past throngs of…
Food Poison Journal
Dozens Sickened, 19 Hospitalized in Apparent Food Poisoning Outbreak at Walmart Distribution Center in Lebanon, Tennessee
By Bill Marler
Wilson County, Tennessee emergency officials are investigating a suspected foodborne illness outbreak at the Walmart Distribution Center in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville. Workers began falling ill late…
Herston on Tennessee Family Law
Gray Divorce Is Not Just a Late-Life Breakup
By K.O. Herston
What divorcing later in life looks like from a Tennessee family-law practiceThe growing number of older Americans who divorce is often treated as a cultural curiosity. It should not be.…
Warner Norcross + Judd LLP
What the IRS’s $736 Million GRAT Case Means for Multigenerational Families
For multigenerational families, a grantor retained annuity trust, or GRAT, has long been one of the most dependable tools for moving wealth to the next generation without triggering a large…
Verfassungsblog
Firing Squads and Botched Executions
By Austin Sarat
On Monday, October 5, President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, an American soldier who, in 2009, killed 13 of his colleagues at Fort Hood,…
Althouse
"Ms. Pike’s medical condition is likely to determine whether Tennessee officials try to execute her again."
By Ann Althouse
"The U.S. Supreme Court has forbidden the execution of someone who does not have a 'rational understanding' of why they’re being put to death."From "Christa Pike Regains Consciousness After Her…
Zalma on Insurance
Failure to Clarify Who’s on First Fraud Action Stalled
By Barry Zalma
Fraud Suits Require Actual Clear Allegations Against Each Defendant Post 4857 Particularity for Fraud-Based Allegations Is Required In Franklin Construction Group, LLC v. Dean Bingham, Lundon Johnson, et al, No.…