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Tennessee Promise. The Tennessee Promise, administered by the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation, is a last-dollar scholarship and mentorship program available for Tennessee's high school graduates to attend two years of secondary education. [ 1] This program began as a component of Governor Bill Haslam 's "Drive to 55" initiative, which ...
The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the state's sodomy statute was unconstitutional in 1996 in the case of Campbell v. Sundquist. [4]In November 2023, the city of Murfreesboro within Rutherford County, Tennessee formally removed "homosexuality" from its local ordinance that criminalizes it [5] [6] after being ordered to do so by U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw on ...
The law states that documents shall "be open for personal inspection by any citizen of Tennessee." Despite the law's provisions, federal court rulings have overturned similar state specific statutes and open up records in these states to all U.S. citizens. In a U.S. Supreme Court ruling McBurney v.
The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [1] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [1] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."
Tennessee's Chancery Court was created in the first half of the 19th Century, and remains one of the few distinctly separate courts of equity in the United States. [4] While the Chancery Court and Tennessee's Circuit Court, the court of general civil and criminal jurisdiction, [3] may share a set of procedural rules in each county, there are ...
Added to NRHP. April 14, 1992. The Cannon County Courthouse located at Court Square in Woodbury, Tennessee, is an historic building and the center of county government in Cannon County . The building was constructed in 1935 to replace the county's 1838 courthouse, which burned in 1934. [2] [3] The courthouse is built in the Colonial Revival style.
SB1752/HB1809 would have made it so full-time students in private, for-profit schools for cosmetology, esthiology and barbering qualified for state-funded Tennessee Promise scholarships. The bill ...
The Tennessee Supreme Court is the highest court in the state of Tennessee. The Supreme Court's three buildings are seated in Nashville, Knoxville, and Jackson, Tennessee. The Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, and four justices. As of September 1, 2023, the chief justice is Holly M. Kirby. [ 1]