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www.tned.uscourts.gov. 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.
United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs, 383 U.S. 715 (1966), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in order for a United States district court to have pendent jurisdiction over a state-law cause of action, state and federal claims must arise from the same "common nucleus of operative fact" and the plaintiff must expect to try them all at once. [1]
Born. (1966-11-19) November 19, 1966 (age 57)[1] Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. Education. University of Tennessee (BA) Samford University (JD) Charles Edward Atchley Jr. (born November 19, 1966) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
The United States attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee is the chief federal law enforcement officer in forty-one Tennessee counties. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney. Doug Overbey, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017, is the ...
Travis Randall McDonough. 1972 (age 51–52) Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. Education. Sewanee: The University of the South (BA) Vanderbilt University (JD) Travis Randall McDonough (born 1972) is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and former chief of staff and counselor ...
Federal judicial service. Collier is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 13, 1995, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089. He was confirmed by the Senate on May 8, 1995, and received his commission on May 10, 1995.
B. Brown v. Board of Commissioners of the City of Chattanooga. Categories: United States district court cases. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
After being filed in 1987 as a complaint against the systematic political underrepresentation of the black population in Chattanooga, the case was taken on by U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar. In 1989 Edgar decided that the at-large voting of the commission-style government was in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 by failing ...