Court Cases

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Bill limited "non-emergency" healthcare procedures which reproductive healthcare was labeled as, prohibiting procedural abortions.

In May 2019, the Tennessee state legislature passed the Tennessee Savings Account Pilot Program, or school vouchers, which authorizes taxpayer-funds to be diverted from public to private schools. This lawsuit was filed on behalf of public school parents in both Shelby and Davidson Counties.

In March 2017, the Tennessee General Assembly exhibited an effort to block refugee resettlement in the state by filing a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that it violated the Refugee Act of 1980 and the Tenth Amendment.

Tennessee saw a surge in voter registrations during the 2018 midterms. Lawmakers passed a measure that creates criminal and civil penalties against those who submit “incomplete” applications. The threat of penalty will chill registration efforts and make ours the only state with such penalties.

Cyntoia Brown is a young woman serving a life sentence in the Tennessee Prison for Women. Ms. Brown was a sixteen-year-old who had been forced into prostitution when she killed a man more than twice her age, a stranger who had picked her up for sex. She was tried and convicted as an adult.