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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (in case citations, M.D. Tenn.) is the federal trial court for most of Middle Tennessee.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.
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.
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 ...
The Court of Criminal Appeals is one of Tennessee's two intermediate appellate courts. It hears trial court appeals in felony and misdemeanor cases, as well as post-conviction petitions. Appeals in civil cases are heard by the Tennessee Court of Appeals. The Court of Criminal Appeals was established by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1967. At ...
The Tennessee Court of Errors and Appeals was established by the Tennessee legislature in 1809 as the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals. [1] Though Tennessee's original constitution did not call for a Supreme Court, at the Constitutional Convention of 1834 the Tennessee Supreme Court was created as its own entity, replacing the Court of ...
Sammy Sadler, who survived a gunshot wound in the 1989 Murder on Music Row case, shares his story with The Tennessean in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Sadler was once a suspect and ...
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 Supreme Court ruled nearly 40 years ago that execution is too harsh a punishment for sexual assault, and justices made a similar decision in 2008 in a case involving the rape of a child.