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New Docket Number Series Announced 

Effective April 1, Order of Protection “OP” cases filed in Circuit Court will be assigned under a new Docket Number Series that will include an “X” rather than a “D” in the docket number, beginning with 14X1, 14X2, 14X3, etc. General Sessions-Civil will continue to use the OP Docket Number Series as the new X Docket Number Series will only affect Orders of Protection filed in Circuit Court.
The new X Docket Number Series was created to improve the immediate recognition of OP files and increase the efficiency in all aspects of processing protection documents.
CaseLink will not allow the public and attorneys access to OP files with an X docket number. However, government agencies who can currently view Sessions-Civil OP files will have access to Circuit’s X files.

Update on Order of Protection Letters 

In collaboration with the judges, Circuit Court Clerk and Metro Police Department, the Circuit and Sessions-Civil Order of Protection Clerks will distribute letters from the Metro Police Department to respondents when an OP is granted.
The first letter will be given to the respondent with the granting of an OP in court. A follow-up letter will then be sent by mail seven days after the hearing to advise the respondent that the police department will be monitoring his/her compliance with the OP.

Judge Philip Smith Featured in Nashville Bar Journal 

Davidson County Fourth Circuit Court Judge Philip Smith was recently featured in the Nashville Bar Journal discussing significant changes made for handling both orders of protection and DUI cases.
His article “Changes in Trial Courts Caseloads” discusses how these cases have been reassigned to promote judicial economy.
To read the entire article, click here.

180 Candidates Agree to Campaign Code

The TBA Today, a publication of the Tennessee Bar Association, reports nearly 180 judges and judicial candidates have signed the Fair Judicial Campaign Code of Conduct.
This pledge promotes not commenting during judicial campaign on legal issues that might come before them as a judge, and if elected, conducting  themselves in a fair and impartial manner and recuse themselves from issues on which they already have announced how they would rule.
To see who has signed the pledge, click here or visit the 2014 Tennessee Judicial Selection Information Center.

Davidson County Judges Bonnyman, Eisenstein & Smith to Speak at Access to Justice Program

Today, the Access to Justice Commission will host a program exploring initiatives and issues challenging the legal community. Sponsored by the National Judicial College and Tennessee Supreme Court the event includes speakers:
  • Hon. Claudia Bonnyman of the Davidson County Chancery Court
  • Hon. Phil Smith of the Davidson County Circuit Court
  • Hon. Dan Eisenstein of the Davidson County General Sessions Court
  • Justice Janice Holder and Connie Clark of the Tennessee Supreme Court
  • Penny White of the University of Tennessee College of Law
  • Senior Judge Don Ash
  • George T. "Buck" Lewis, chair of the Access to Justice Commission
  • Martha Lafferty of the Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee
  • and Colin Calhoun of Sobel, Poss & Moore

February 2014 Circuit Court Trial Report

Click here to access February 2014 departments by the number, trials by case type and trial verdict results.
For more detailed access about these cases and thousands more, subscribe to CaseLink by emailing caselink@nashville.gov. 

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