Eugene Volokh, a prominent First Amendment scholar, podcaster and author, has filed a lawsuit against Williamson County officials saying its policy of denying access to court records violates the First Amendment.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which a lower court judge refused to unseal court records in a test of the First Amendment right of access by the public to court proceedings and court documents.
A school board's agreement to not say anything disparaging about a director of schools it fired violates the First Amendment free speech rights of school board members, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled in a case upholding a lower court's decision.
