An appeal from a criminal case out of Lawrence County, Tenn., challenges state government’s control of the public right-of-way by commercial regulation, a system that Jan. 1 began using …
When people hear a reference to “state actors,” they imagine for a split second a group of people all practicing grimaces, tremulous expressions of fear or glorious smiles as …
The power of the jury to reject lawless prosecutions is a vital interest of local economy and free markets. If juries can stiff-arm state or federal prosecutors by voting …
The state is refusing to prosecute two of its agents who violated the constitutional rights of two Hixson residents by arresting and lying about them in May. “We are …
Chattanooga defendant Hanson Melvin met district attorney Neal Pinkston on Thursday to demand a criminal prosecution of what he says is perjury in a police report that brought an …
By Esther Taj Attorney Mike Little has worked in the Hamilton County public defender’s office 1 ½ years and is a candidate for criminal court judge. He fields probing …
By David Tulis Our city and county will lose less — and perhaps even prosper — in the coming great default if people who live here believe in local …
By David Tulis Arthur Jay Hirsch, 65, was convicted in December in a Lawrenceburg, Tenn., circuit court of four counts, three of which involved the exercise of his constitutional …