Tennessee Attorney General (AG) Jonathan Skrmetti is alerting customers of genetic testing company 23andMe of their rights to download their personal data from their account, delete their account and instruct the company to destroy their biological sample and not use it for research purposes following the company’s bankruptcy filing. All of these options are protected under Tennessee’s Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), which went into effect in July 2023, Skrmetti said in a press release. "Our genetic information is some of our most personal data, giving insight about not just us but our families,” he said.

A 36-year-old Shelby County Jail inmate, Courtney Berry, was discovered "unresponsive in a restroom" Sunday morning, according to a statement from the Shelby County Sheriff's Office to the Commercial Appeal. "Lifesaving measures were taken by staff members and Memphis Fire Department paramedics," the sheriff's office said in a statement. "A pre-existing medical condition may have played a part in the event." The investigation into Berry's death is ongoing. He was arrested without bond while a petition by state prosecutors to revoke his suspended sentence was pending. He previously had been convicted of criminal attempt to possess a firearm while being a convicted felon. Berry's death is at least the fifth so far this year. In early February, four inmates died within a week.

One week after Tennessee's Republican U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty wrote an op-ed calling for the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) board to be replaced, President Donald Trump fired Michelle Moore from the TVA Board of Directors. Moore was dismissed on March 27, according to a March 28 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All five members of the board, down from six after Moore's termination, were nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed to five-year terms by the U.S. Senate. Three members, who were nominated by President Trump during his first term, rolled off after their terms expired. The board needs five of its nine members to conduct business. In other news, TVA announced on Monday that Chief Operating Officer Don Moul would succeed Jeff Lyash as CEO on April 9 following Lyash's retirement. Knox News has the story

DAVIS, Circuit Judge. Defendant Idris Quintell Wilkes pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He received the mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen years’ imprisonment under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), based on the district court’s determination that his four previous cocaine-related Michigan convictions met the definition of a “serious drug offense.” We affirmed the decision of the district court in part and held the appeal in abeyance in part, retaining jurisdiction to later resolve Wilkes’s remaining ACCA-enhancement challenge in light of the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in Jackson v. United States, No. 22-6640 (U.S. Jan. 24, 2023), consolidated with Brown v. United States, No. 22-6389 (U.S. Aug. 29, 2022). See United States v. Wilkes, 78 F.4th 272, 278 (6th Cir. 2023). The Court has since issued its opinion in Brown v. United States, 602 U.S. 101 (2024). And applying Brown’s guidance here, we affirm the district court’s ruling.

SUTTON, Chief Judge. The distinction between “salaried” and “hourly” workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act is easy to state. Salaried employees receive steady, predictable pay regardless of the number of hours they work. Hourly workers receive pay based on the number of hours they work. But sometimes the test is easier to state than to apply. Lynwood Pickens regularly worked more than 50 hours per week at $100 per hour but was guaranteed pay each week for the equivalent of 8 hours, with every subsequent hour paid hourly. His employer classified him as “salaried.” He sued. At summary judgment, the district court determined that Pickens was a salaried worker. We reverse and remand.

PER CURIAM. During the summer of 2020, Adam Fox and Barry Croft, Jr. hatched an elaborate plan to kidnap Michigan’s Governor, Gretchen Whitmer. A federal jury convicted both men on all charges, and the district court sentenced Fox to 192 months’ imprisonment and Croft to 235 months’ imprisonment. On appeal, Defendants argue that there was insufficient evidence to convict them of the charges and that the district court erred by: (1) declining to conduct a “Remmer” hearing to allow questioning of an allegedly biased juror, pursuant to Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954); (2) limiting the defense’s time for cross- examination of a co-conspirator; and (3) limiting the scope of the admissibility of certain government informant statements. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

Defendant, Kenneth Street, pled guilty ot two counts of possession of a controlled substance ni exchange for two consecutive sentences of eleven months and twenty-nine days, both of which would be suspended and deferred. As part of the guilty plea agreement, the State dismissed several charges. Defendant subsequently sought to withdraw his guilty pleas pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 32. The trial court denied the request. Defendant appealed. Upon our review, we conclude that Defendant has failed to prepare a sufficient brief in compliance with Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 27(a)(7) and Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Rule 10(b). Accordingly, his issues are waived, and the appeal si dismissed.

David Ray Conley and Wade Parks (together, “Appellants”) appeal from the order of the Cocke County Chancery Court (“trial court”) granting summary judgment to plaintiff Robert John Collins (“Appellee”). The underlying controversy is a will contest surrounding the estate of Sandra Kay Parks (“Decedent”). Appellee, Decedent’s only heir-at-law, filed a Petition for Probate Administration asserting that no will of the Decedent had been located. Appellants subsequently sought to probate a document purported to be Decedent’s Last Will and Testament. Following cross motions for summary judgment, the trial court concluded that Decedent’s proposed will had not been executed with the formalities required by Tennessee Code Annotated section 32-1-104 and granted summary judgment in favor of Appellee. Appellants timely appealed to this Court. Discerning no error, we affirm.

This appeal seeks possession and ownership of real property based on claims of adverse possession. The trial court ruled in favor of the appellee. We affirm the decision of the trial court.

The Tennessee Supreme Court will hear two cases — Alan C. Cartwright v. Thomason Hendrix PC, et al. and Alice Cartwright Garner et al. v. Thomason, Hendrix, Harvey, Johnson & Mitchell PLLC, et al. — during its April 9 docket in Jackson. The two cases are related actions involving similar legal issues. The cases will be heard at the Tennessee Supreme Court, 6 US-45 Bypass, Jackson 38301, beginning at 9 a.m. CDT and livestreamed to the TNCourts YouTube page. Read more about the cases in a press release from the Administrative Office of the Courts.