Hawkins v. Tennessee Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[e]ven where authorization for suit against the state exists, ‘suits may only be brought in those courts and under those conditions specified by the legislature’” (quoting Crowe v. John W. Harton Mem’l Hosp., 579 S.W.2d 888, 890 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1979)
• “Venue refers to locality, and in the legal sense it signifies the proper locality in which a court of competent jurisdiction may adjudicate an action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).