Employment Law Court Rulings

This case involves a lease that allowed a restaurant to operate inside a hotel building. During the term of the lease, the originalowner-lessor sold the hotel building to a successor, who then sold the hotel building to the appellant. The appellant tried to "buy out" the tenant and cancel the…

Collective bargaining agreement arbitration award public policy de novo factual finding waiver. The trial court's judgment vacating arbitration award reversed where trial court erroneously concluded that the arbitration award violated public policy.

Myra M. Windham appeals the circuit court's grant of summary judgment to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company on its declaratory judgment action. State Farm sought a determination that Windham could not stack her underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage from her policies with it when she was…

A medical center employee sued the medical center under the Tennessee Public Protection Act ("the TPPA") asserting that his employment was terminated because he refused to remain silent about the medical center's failure to enact policies to safeguard its employees from workplace violence. The…