FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2008 CONTACT: Hedy Weinberg, Executive Director, ACLU-TN: (615) 320-7142 CLEVELAND, TN – After over two years of administrative and legal wrangling, ACLU-TN has successfully negotiated [...]
ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorneys: Bruce Kramer, Borod & Kramer, P.C.; ACLU First Amendment Working Group (Direct Representation) Plaintiffs: Thaddeus Matthews Defendants: City of Memphis Thaddeus Matthews is a Memphis blogger whose [...]
ACLU-TN defended the free speech rights of the owner of an Arizona-based company that sells various anti-war and peace-themed products, in a $40 billion class action suit brought against him by the Tennessee family of a soldier who died in the Iraq war.
(No. 08-6377, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorney: Charles K. Grant, Baker Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz ACLU Attorneys: Tricia Herzfeld, ACLU-TN; and Laughlin McDonald, Neil Bradley, and [...]
(No. 1:07-cv-0027, United State District Court of Eastern Tennessee, Judge Curtis Collier) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorney: Chris Varner, Gearhiser, Peters, Lockaby, Cavett & Elliott, PLLC. (Direct Representation) Plaintiffs: Ronald Teel, Leone [...]
(No. 06-6172, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorneys: Barbara Moss and Sam Zeigler, Stites and Harbison (Amicus Representation). The Student Press Law Center and the [...]
(No. 3:06-0924, United State District Court of Middle Tennessee, Nashville Division, Judge Robert Echols) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorney: Edmund J. Schmidt, III, Law Offices of David Randolph Smith& Edmund J. Schmidt, [...]
(No. M2005-1941-CCA-R3-DD Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Circuit Court for Williamson County, Judge Russ Heldman) Plaintiff Representation: Cassandra Stubbs, ACLU Capital Punishment Project; Kelly A. Gleason, Tennessee Post-Conviction Defender Office [...]
(Case No. 05-1010-IV, Chancery Court for Davidson County, Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle and Case No. M2006–00460–SC–RDM–CV, Supreme Court of Tennessee at Nashville, Chief Justice William M. Barker delivered the opinion of the court, [...]
(92C-1672, Circuit Court for Davidson County) (01A01-9601-CV-00052, Court of Appeals of Tennessee) (01S01-9902-CV-00034, Supreme Court of Tennessee) ACLU Attorneys/Cooperating Attorneys: Barry Friedman, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Irwin Venick, Dobbins & [...]
