TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 19, 2024

Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has filed an appeal with the Tennessee Court of Appeals to challenge a special three-judge panel’s decision that found a state-constituted airport board for the Nashville Airport Authority to be unconstitutional. In November 2023, the state indicated its intention to challenge the ruling and ask the appeals court to reverse it. The special panel ruled in October 2023 that state legislators violated the home rule concept by targeting Nashville and immediately reinstated the Metro board. That board has been meeting while the issue remains in litigation. The Nashville Business Journal reports that the state argues that the law does not illegally single-out Nashville and that because the airport authority is a separate legal entity, Metro does not have standing to sue.