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While the Chancery Court and Tennessee's Circuit Court, the court of general civil and criminal jurisdiction, [3] may share a set of procedural rules in each county, there are some distinct rules applying to the separate courts. [5] [6] Parties in the Chancery Court are entitled to have a jury try issues of material fact. [7] In 2015, Tennessee ...
National Center for State Courts – directory of state court websites. "Tennessee" , Caselaw Access Project , Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565 , Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library
U.S. Court House & Post Office† Knoxville: 600 Market Street: E.D. Tenn. 1874–1933 Later used by the Tennessee Valley Authority; now the East Tennessee Historical Center. n/a U.S. Post Office & Courthouse† Knoxville: 501 Main Street: E.D. Tenn. 1934–1998 Now in use by the Tennessee state courts and a post office. n/a Howard H. Baker, Jr ...
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (in case citations, E.D. Tenn.) is the federal court in the Sixth Circuit whose jurisdiction covers most of East Tennessee and a portion of Middle Tennessee. The court has jurisdiction over 41 counties, which are divided among four divisions.
Based at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Nashville, it was created in 1839 when Congress added a third district to the state. Tennessee—along with Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan—is located within the area covered by United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and appeals are taken to that court ...
On February 13, 1801, in the famous "Midnight Judges" Act of 1801, 2 Stat. 89, Congress abolished the U.S. district court in Tennessee, [2] and expanded the number of circuits to six, provided for independent circuit court judgeships, and abolished the necessity of Supreme Court Justices riding the circuits. It was this legislation which ...
Tennessee state court judges (2 C, 54 P) T. Tennessee Supreme Court (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Tennessee state courts" The following 7 pages are in this category ...
On March 4, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge, a former Governor of Massachusetts and very familiar with the benefits of a functioning probation system, signed the bill in to law. This Act gave the U.S. Courts the power to appoint Federal Probation Officers and authority to sentence defendants to probation instead of a prison sentence.