TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Dec 1, 2015

With the Rye v. Women’s Care Center of Memphis MPLLC decision, Tennessee now has its own “summary judgment trilogy”: Byrd, Hannan and Rye. Solicitor General Andrée Blumstein explains in the December Tennessee Bar Journal how Rye brings the state’s summary judgment jurisprudence full circle, rejecting as problematic the idiosyncratic Hannan standard and reinstating as tried-and-true the familiar federal summary judgment standard. Also in the issue, University of Tennessee law professor Michael J. Higdon shows you how to write succinctly, to better communicate with the impatient, skeptical legal reader.