Cop-abused business law sparks Red Bank execution of woman
The Red Bank police department uses cruisers like this to chase down private users of the road under the state’s commercial transportation law. (Photo David Tulis) A police chase and slaying of Donna Lynn Allen, 39, in Soddy-Daisy Tuesday highlights the dangers of police departments using business laws to harass non-business users of the public […]
Residents could win huge refund if Gaddy right about Dunlap annex flaw
Steve Darnell, an administrative law judge from the Tennessee department of state, strolls about the old Sequatchie County courthouse prior to hearing a case seeking to overturn 1972 annexation claims by City of Dunlap, a municipal corporation. (Photos David Tulis) Ivan Condra, 84, elected property assessor seven times, served 28 years and is a longtime […]
Victim of 2-year court battle hounds Dunlap over iffy annexation
Steve Darnell, an administrative judge from the Tennessee secretary of state’s office, goes inside the old courthouse in Sequatchie County to begin a hearing in a battle between a feisty constittionalist and a city government’s sketchy annexation history. (Photo David Tulis) The town of Dunlap settled a two-year fight to inspect or search a private […]
Police rape case strains council decorum; citizens demand ‘oversight’
City council member Darrin Ledford talks with a city resident Tuesday while, background, council member Ken Smith speaks with Basil Marceaux. (Photos David Tulis) Demetrus Coonrod is the only city council member to have expressed opposition to police violence. Basil Marceaux of Soddy-Daisy gives a five-minute chat regarding his high theories of law and justice […]
Lawyer strangles deacon; how UPL aborts charity defense for poor
UPL = unlicensed practice of law. It prevents Christian charity in the courts in TN because it forbids nonlawyers such as deacons from assisting and representing poor people facing criminal charges. This ministry is one that Robby Holt and John Tomberlin at North Shore Fellowship and other Christians would like to launch in the next […]
Pinkston prosecutorial practice: ‘No constitutional “right to travel,”’ & that’s that
Neal Pinkston, state prosecutor in Hamilton County, Tenn. (Photo WDEF.com) Tennessee court policy denies any right to travel exists, except in one instance. And that is the “individual right to move between states,” to change one’s domicile from Tennessee, say, to Florida. That’s the point made by Neal Pinkston, the elected state’s attorney in Hamilton […]
Citizens to city council: Routine arrests ugly, hateful
David Tulis, Chattanooga’s “blogger with the biggest pen,” shows city council the narrowness of Tennessee transportation law in Title 55, warning that many abusive police arrests occur as officers operate outside its commercial scope. (Photo NoogaRadio on Facebook) Avery Gray is the angry mother of a girl arrested during an illegally arranged repossession of a […]
Beyond textbooks at homeschool expo; Power of games, field guides
Girls and mom talk with an exhibitor at the annual homeschool expo in East Ridge set July 20, 21. Here’s the game Pictionary. When my kids were growing up, I set aside $300 to spend at the curriculum fair every year. Your budget may be bigger or smaller. You may be looking for actual curricula […]
Judge halts TN’s driver license abuse, but keeps deep state scheme alive
A federal judge has halted driver license revocations against people too poor to pay court fines and fees, such as the families of these African-American children living in a government housing project who are most injured by the department of safety and homeland security program. (Photo Chattanooga Police Department) A federal judge shot down Tennessee […]
Prosecution of nonviolent Gray girl, 14, cover for 2 wrongs by cop
A repo man checks the VIN of a car he is about to seize in a noisy confrontation with the daughter of the debtor, who is dragged from the car by a city police officer in the sort of “breach of the peace” forbidden under Tennessee’s collateral repossession statute. (Photo police YouTube video) Dear Neal […]