Matter of Adams v. Chun

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “the geographical jurisdiction of a circuit court judge [is confined] to the judge’s statutorily defined and assigned judicial district”
• disagreeing with two federal district courts and a Tennessee Attorney General opinion in construing state law
• discussing how a circuit court judge’s jurisdiction is defined by the bounds of the judicial district to which the judge is assigned
• “We cannot logically view the statute’s location in the Code as more indicative of legislative intent than the statutory language.”
• “‘Where a conflict is presented between two statutes, a more specific statutory provision takes precedence over a more general provision.’” (quoting Lovlace v. Copley, 418 S.W.3d 1, 20 (Tenn. 2013))
• determining two district court opinions to be only persuasive authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).