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A: I recognize the importance of the General Sessions Court Clerk's office to the operations of Shelby County's largest court system. The clerk's office manages over 165,000 cases a year, both ...
Tennessee's Chancery Court was created in the first half of the 19th Century, and remains one of the few distinctly separate courts of equity in the United States. [4] 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 ...
The general election for the next general sessions court clerk will be held Aug. 1. Joe Brown listens during a Memphis City Council meeting Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.
Tennessee Juvenile and Family Courts [5] Tennessee General Session Courts [6] Federal courts located in Tennessee. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee [7] United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee [8] United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee [9] Former federal ...
The Tennessee Court of Appeals (in case citation, Tenn. Ct. App.) was created in 1925 by the Tennessee General Assembly as an intermediate appellate court to hear appeals in civil cases from the Tennessee state trial courts. Appeals of judgments made by the Court of Appeals may be made to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.
It is alluded to in many rap songs by artists hailing from Memphis. The Complex houses several courts, including General Sessions Criminal Courts, most located on the lower level of the building, felony courts on the upper levels, Police and Sheriff's offices, the District Attorney General's office, as well as the Office of the Public Defender.
The questions will appear on the ballot for now, but the state could appeal the decision. Here's what else we know about the ruling.