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BREDESEN v. TENNESSEE JUD. SELECTION COM'N

214 S.W.3d 419 (2007)

Phil BREDESEN, Governor of the State of Tennessee v. TENNESSEE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION, et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

February 21, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Bone and Charles Robert Bone, Nashville, Tennessee; Lyle Reid, Brownsville, Tennessee; and Irma Merrill Stratton and Timothy W. Smith, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, J. Houston Gordon.

John Spaulding Hicks, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, George T. Lewis, III.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter, and Janet M. Kleinfelter, Senior Counsel, for the appellee, Governor Phil Bredesen.

Ben H. Cantrell, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellee, Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission.

OPINION

WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which JANICE M. HOLDER and CORNELIA A. CLARK, JJ., and E. RILEY ANDERSON, Sp. J., joined.1

This appeal concerns the process for appointing a new justice to become the fifth member of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The issues in this case involve the proper interpretation of sections 17-4-101 to 17-4-118 of the Tennessee Code Annotated ("the Tennessee Plan"...

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