Category: Attorney

Bradley adds Sveadas to health care team

VOL. 46 | NO. 32 | Friday, August 12, 2022 Heather H. Sveadas has joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP as counsel in the health care practice group. Sveadas has extensive experience advising health care providers, including hospitals, home health providers, federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics and physicians in regulatory matters and in… Continue reading Bradley adds Sveadas to health care team

Cancellation of Atlanta festival sparks new fight over guns

VOL. 46 | NO. 32 | Friday, August 12, 2022 ATLANTA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Music Midtown festivalgoers are no longer going to descend on Atlanta’s massive Piedmont Park next month to cheer on hip-hop star Future or watch beloved rock band My Chemical Romance take the stage. In fact, some people are… Continue reading Cancellation of Atlanta festival sparks new fight over guns

FBI searches Trump’s Florida estate for classified records

VOL. 46 | NO. 31 | Friday, August 5, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said, a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of… Continue reading FBI searches Trump’s Florida estate for classified records

Biden administration says ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy is over

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 31 | Friday, August 5, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order in effect since December that it be… Continue reading Biden administration says ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy is over

Tennessee’s embattled school voucher program gets the go-ahead from a panel of judges

Damon MitchellWPLN News Nashville families can now apply for Tennessee’s Education Savings Account program. ESA funds will allow families to receive public funding to finance private school tuition. A three-judge panel has given the green light to Tennessee’s controversial Education Savings Account program. The decision came down after a lengthy court hearing Friday. In May,… Continue reading Tennessee’s embattled school voucher program gets the go-ahead from a panel of judges

Doctor critical of lax COVID rules wins Democratic gubernatorial primary

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 31 | Friday, August 5, 2022 NASHVILLE (AP) — Jason Martin, a Nashville doctor critical of Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s hands-off approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, won the Democratic nomination for governor Friday and will face Lee in November. Martin, a first-time political candidate, defeated Memphis attorney and… Continue reading Doctor critical of lax COVID rules wins Democratic gubernatorial primary

Transgender child sues Tennessee, Williamson County school board over school bathroom law

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To replace, or retain? Here’s how to navigate all those questions about judges on Nashville’s ballot

Rachel IacovoneWPLN News Tennessee Supreme Court judges are included in the many judicial retention questions on the ballot. To retain, or replace: that is the question. Or, at least, it’s a question you’ll be greeted with more than 20 times when you go to vote.   It’s a big ballot for judges this year —… Continue reading To replace, or retain? Here’s how to navigate all those questions about judges on Nashville’s ballot

US begins court battle against publishing giants’ merger

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 30 | Friday, July 29, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The government and publishing titan Penguin Random House are set to exchange opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial Monday as the U.S. seeks to block the biggest U.S. book publisher from absorbing rival Simon & Schuster. The case… Continue reading US begins court battle against publishing giants’ merger