TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 14, 2024

A lawsuit seeking the ouster of Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert will go back to court next week, the Daily Memphian reports. Circuit Court Judge Felicia Corbin-Johnson has set Nov. 20 as the date to hear oral arguments on Halbert’s attorneys’ motion to dismiss the suit. Both sides have filed briefs on the question of whether the county attorney’s office could legally appoint a private attorney to file the ouster lawsuit in August. It is the second time Halbert has been the target of an ouster lawsuit alleging willful neglect of her office. Corbin-Johnson dismissed the first, filed in May, ruling that special attorney and Hamilton County District Attorney General Coty Wamp could not file the suit because she does not live in the jurisdiction where Halbert was elected. That decision led the county attorney’s office to contract with a private lawyer to bring the suit.