Does attorney know legal landscape in city has shifted?

Attorney Robin Flores is a lawyer who regularly engages in lawsuits against cities and counties for abusive police practices. Mr. Flores, also a member of the NAACP, may be unaware that the legal landscape in Chattanooga has shifted in favor of the citizenry and against high-handed and gangland-style cop departments. How so? The earth moved, […]

DA disputes jury power, insists jurors must enforce law

We stop ’em by being on juries and being informed about our ancient rights to defy and defeat bad law when pressed against a criminal defendant. But Melydia Clewell, spokeswoman for DA Neal Pinkston in Hamilton County, Tenn., rips idea of jury members’ ruling on laws and nullifying them by “not guilty” findings or hung […]

New stimulus for Hammond chief: Traffic stops limited

The toughest question Gino Bennett asks me is, “Are you saying that a person who is committing a violation is not under the authority of our officer?” Mr. Bennett is the chief lieutenant of Jim Hammond, Hamilton County’s elected sheriff, and is almost always attending to the county’s most powerful man as his director of […]

Gentry slashes back at lawyer-senator’s bid to blight remonstrance petition

Petitioner John Gentry deals with a head-on rebuke by a practicing attorney and member of the state judiciary who is also a member of the legislature in the Tennessee senate. Mr. Gentry filed in state house and senate a petition of remonstrance that is an extraordinary stab at what might readily be called the Tennessee […]

‘Absurd’ petition would open tide of grievances, pol says

John Stevens is a practicing attorney of Huntingdon, Tenn., 3½ hours from Chattanooga and west of Nashville, and a member of the state senate who objects to anyone criticizing his profession and calling or his high place with two seats in the three branches of state government. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio In a […]

Gig City opts to renew snoop in Internet ban on rentals

City council with little discussion Tuesday voted to enter into an option to renew a surveillance contract with Host Compliance LLC, which says it “makes it easy for municipalities to implement and enforce fair and effective short-term rental rules,” and also ones that are flatly unconstitutional. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 On its website […]

Jets dump tons of coal fly ash on county in war on sunlight

Months of minor treatments of the atmosphere by the national government end Thursday morning over Chattanooga in an intense bombardment of utility waste serving federal weather policy and its 60-year-old program of aerosol geoengineering. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 Tightly knit formations of jet planes strung white tattoos across the blue skies, with morning […]

Gentry readies petition for remonstrance, asks for traffic stop reform detail

A remarkable project is about to be birthed in which John Gentry, a certified public accountant who resides in Goodlettsville, Tenn., tells the general assembly about innumerable grievances brought against the people by the dominant private interest in Tennessee, namely members of the bar — attorneys and judges, who operate as a combine to deprive […]

Notice undoes security breach against the people

Transportation administrative notice Tennessee is a righteous cause that undoes a security breach against the people. And that is their right to be free “from unreasonable searches and seizures” and to be “ secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions,” article 1, section 7 in the state constitution. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio […]

Berke ignores notice, slighting your rights; but, there’s a hidden benefit

Mayor Andy Berke exercises leadership for City of Chattanooga, a municipal corporation whose powers are strictly limited under state law. His form of leadership requires him to disobey Tenn. Code Ann. § Title 55. (Photo mayor’s office) Mayor Andy Berke is a member of the state’s judicial branch who has crossed over into the executive […]