Initiating criminal prosecution to adjudicate privilege-status questions short-circuits the statutory administrative channel serving government, defeats the longstanding exhaustion rule and violates due process where law supplies an exclusive path …
The department of safety since the passage of the driver license law in 1938 has offloaded responsibility for administration of the privilege onto the state’s 95 counties. Counties are …
In an important filing, Mr. Soloe says that Tennessee law reflects federal law, which is exclusively upon commercial motor vehicles. Federal law very clearly excludes private travel.
Saturday, May 2, 2026 — A district attorney argues against use of the exhaustion doctrine in a criminal traffic case, citing the general statute giving circuit courts criminal jurisdiction, …
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025 — A firm believer in administrative notice, my lawsuit to decriminalize traffic stops, as they are called, contains important facts ignored by U.S. …
My case in U.S. district court in Chattanooga is on appeal to the 6th circuit in Cincinnati. It seeks to decriminalize traffic stops, and makes arguments that I believe …
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025 — My lawsuit against deputy sheriff Brandon Bennett, his boss sheriff Austin Garrett and Hamilton County, Tenn., for false imprisonment and false arrest …
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 — Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett answers my attack on criminal traffic stops with an 18pp brief containing 11 pages of argument that …
