TENNESSEE COA HEARING IN THE HISTORIC COURTROOM:\u00a0 FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2026, at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
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Memphis Law will host the Tennessee Court of Appeals oral arguments in the Historic Courtroom on Friday, January 23, 2026, beginning at 9:30 a.m.\u00a0 The Court will hear three cases:<\/p>\n
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9:30–Werner v. Melton (dog bite case, denial of motion to set aside judgment)<\/p>\n
10:30\u2014Southern Auto v. Airways Towing (regarding validity of appeal from General Sessions to Circuit Court), and<\/p>\n
11:30\u2014City of Memphis v. Memphis Police Ass’n (regarding propriety of City creating new police position).<\/p>\n
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The official docket and a one-paragraph summary of all three cases are attached.\u00a0 Also, all of the briefs are attached for your convenience.\u00a0 Please welcome our visitors and come learn about the Tennessee Court of Appeals process and authentic oral arguments.<\/p>\n
City of Memphis – Appellant’s Brief<\/a> City of Memphis – Appellee’s Brief<\/a> City of Memphis – Reply Brief<\/a> City of Memphis Appellee’s-Intervenor’s Brief<\/a>Jan 23 2026 Docket<\/a>Southern Auto – Appellant’s Brief<\/a> Southern Auto – Appellee’s Brief<\/a>Werner – Appellant’s Brief<\/a> Werner – Appellee’s Brief<\/a> Werner – Reply Brief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TENNESSEE COA HEARING IN THE HISTORIC COURTROOM:\u00a0 FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. Memphis Law will host the Tennessee...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39159,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions\/39159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}