TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 7, 2022

In one of her final rulings before retiring, Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled that the Tennessee Code Annotated is exempt from Tennessee public records law and that it cannot be copyrighted. She cited a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a similar case in Georgia as her rationale, the Nashville Post reports. Public.Resource.Org and Nashville law professor David Hudson had sued LexisNexis in Davidson County Chancery Court in July, asking the court to force the company to offer the complete and current electronic version of the TCA for free. Public.Resource President Carl Malamud said the organization would appeal the decision.