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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 Coffee County Courthouse in Manchester, Tennessee is a historic courthouse which was built in 1871. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1] It was built after the original 1837 courthouse was destroyed by a fire. It is a brick Italianate -style building, with brick laid in American bond.
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.
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 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 ...
Courts of Tennessee. Courts of Tennessee include: State courts of Tennessee. Tennessee Supreme Court [1] Tennessee Court of Appeals (3 grand divisions) [2] Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (3 grand divisions) [3] Tennessee Circuit Courts (32 judicial districts) [4] Tennessee Chancery and Probate Courts (32 judicial districts) [4]