TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 12, 2020

Gov. Bill Lee signed an executive order today to declare Tennessee under a state of emergency to facilitate the treatment and containment of COVID-19, the Tennessee Journal reports. The governor said that today’s action will allow the state to “utilize additional emergency funds as needed and relax provisions of certain laws to provide the flexibility needed to respond to this disease.” In other news, both state and federal courts have announced new procedures aimed at reducing the spread of the COVID-19 virus and a number of organizations have announced that events have been postponed or canceled. The TBA has created a Pandemic Resource Center to keep the legal community updated.