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AM. CIVIL LIBERTIES U. OF TENN. v. STATE OF TENN.

No. 80-3105.

502 F.Supp. 388 (1980)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE; Save Our Cumberland Mountains; J. W. Bradley; Charles Winfrey; Memphis Area Legal Services, Inc.; Rural Legal Services of Tennessee, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF TENNESSEE; William Leech, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

November 26, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean Hill Rivkin, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Claudius C. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

WISEMAN, District Judge.

On September 2, 1980, this Court entered a declaratory judgment that the Tennessee barratry statute, T.C.A. §§ 39-3405-3410, is unconstitutional in its entirety. American Civil Liberties Union v. State of Tennessee, 496 F.Supp. 218 (M.D.Tenn. 1980). In its memorandum opinion, the Court found that plaintiffs, who brought...

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