Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

After discovery, DSS filed a motion for summary judgment, which the trial court granted. The trial court ruled that plaintiff had asserted a premises liability claim, and that “DSS did not owe Plaintiff a duty of care under premises liability.” Plaintiff then amended his complaint to assert claims against DSS as well.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

City of Clarksville, Tennessee , No. This suit followed, asserting several contract and property claims, as well as a tort claim for intentional interference with business relationships. The trial court dismissed the tort claim against the City pursuant to the GTLA, and dismissal was affirmed on appeal. In Robinson v.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 5, 2022

While defendant urged the Court to “follow the modern trend taken in federal courts, which no longer requires renewal of a motion for directed verdict at the close of all the proof,” the Court declined to change long-standing Tennessee law. Accordingly, the Court ruled that, pursuant to Tenn.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The trial court denied the motion to dismiss, holding that “Plaintiffs’ claims for medical battery and intentional misrepresentation were based on false statements the Defendants made to [plaintiff] before they established a doctor-patient relationship,” and the Court of Appeals affirmed this “temporal analysis” on interlocutory appeal.

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Plaintiff attempted to rely on additional documents referred to in the SCES manual to support a finding of duty, but the Court noted that the Manual specifically referred to these additional documents in an attempt to provide proper pruning methods, not to add to defendant’s contractual duty. internal citations omitted).

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

When that friend could not find a Tennessee lawyer to take her case before the statute of limitations ran out, he sent her a sample pre-suit notice form. Note: Chapter 45, Sections 3, 9 and 12 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More than two weeks after the order of dismissal was entered, defendants filed a “combined motion to alter or amend and petition to dismiss with prejudice pursuant to the Tennessee Public Participation Act” (TPPA). voluntary dismissals in Tennessee. internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

City of Algood, Tennessee , No. At the close of plaintiff’s proof, defendant moved for involuntary dismissal of plaintiff’s claims pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 41.02(2), 2), which the trial court granted. 2), the trial court did not err in considering the testimony of [plaintiff’s wife].”.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 28, 2022

The Court ruled that this response was insufficient and that the statement was thus admitted, explaining: Rule 56.03 Accordingly, the Court ruled that the fact was admitted and defendant could not “be charged with actual notice.”. internal citations and quotations omitted). Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 29, 2021

The Tennessee Supreme Court has interpreted this requirement to mean that a plaintiff must “provide pre-suit notice to prospective health care defendants each time a complaint is filed.” This conclusion is most aligned with Tennessee law and public policy. Here, [defendants] received the Notice on April 25, 2019.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2021

There is an interesting and difficult free speech controversy brewing at Tennessee Tech University. The board rejected the proposal and Donadio, an assistant professor of nursing at Tennessee Tech as well as a local county commissioner , applauded loudly. Your hate & hypocrisy are not welcome at Tennessee Tech.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) governs suits against governmental entities in Tennessee, removing immunity for governmental entities only in certain situations. Defendants first argued that Mr. Mosby’s actions in this case qualified as an assault or battery, an intentional tort for which immunity would not be removed.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 12, 2021

Where defendant doctor was an employee of a governmental entity and plaintiffs failed to name the employer in their HCLA suit, dismissal under the Tennessee GTLA was affirmed. WTMG is a governmental entity under the definitions in the Governmental Tort Liability Act. In Braylon W. Walker , No. W2020-00692-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Dyer County Tennessee , No. 16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. The Court of Appeals first analyzed whether a special relationship was created by the deputy’s actions. In Kimble v. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Court of Appeals first considered plaintiff’s claim that defendant created a “temporary nuisance by diverting water onto his property.” Tort cases based on the flow of surface water often include claims for trespass and/or nuisance. internal citation and quotation omitted).

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Day on Torts

MARCH 12, 2021

The trial judge in this case specifically found defendant to be a credible witness, and the Court ruled that “[g]iving due deference to the trial court’s credibility determination, the record supports the trial court’s conclusion that [plaintiff] failed to prove that [defendant] intentionally misrepresented the amounts owed.”.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

Defendant implied in his brief that a check could not be considered “tangible personal property,” but the Court quickly pointed out that “conversion of checks is actionable” in Tennessee, as “checks designate specific amounts of money for use for specific purposes.” internal citations omitted). Code Ann. § 47-3-118(g). “In

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5] 8; Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act, Tenn.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When appealing a trial court’s order dismissing or refusing to dismiss a case under the Tennessee Public Protection Act (TPPA), the appeal “must be filed within thirty days of the entry of that order.”. This is an important case, as it provides further interpretation of the TPPA, a relatively new statute in Tennessee.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled plaintiffs can pursue claims based on recklessness and gross negligence under the GTLA. The Court reasoned: [C]onceptually distinct though it is, simple negligence is a subspecies of these heightened forms of negligence, and in turn, these concepts contrast with intentional torts.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 4, 2023

In a unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court has held that the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) “removes immunity only for ordinary negligence,” not for gross negligence or recklessness. Hawkins County, Tennessee , No. The Court of Appeals reversed dismissal. In Lawson v. E2020-01529-SC-R11-CV (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2022

Under the modern discovery rule…, Plaintiffs were on constructive notice of their claim by October 5, 2009. Because plaintiffs had constructive notice of their claim in 2009, the Court ruled that the conversion claim should have been barred by the three-year statute of limitations.

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Day on Torts

MAY 3, 2022

Perry County, Tennessee , No. The Tennessee Supreme Court “has adopted a planning-operational test to determine whether a decision is discretionary within the meaning of the GTLA,” explaining that “planning or policy-making decisions are immune from liability” while “operational decisions do not enjoy the same protection.”

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Day on Torts

MARCH 30, 2021

Where the other driver in a car accident case died before suit was filed and the plaintiff failed to “timely file his tort action against the personal representative within the applicable statute of limitations,” summary judgment for the personal representative was affirmed. Luethke , No. E2020-00317-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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