by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 21, 2014 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law “Sex trafficking or slavery is the exploitation of women and children, within national or across international borders, for the purposes of forced sex work.” www.soroptimist.org/trafficking. This exploitation includes businesses...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 16, 2014 | Columnist, McKeehan
Replacing previous federal law known as the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) primarily expands protections for active duty members of the armed forces. Found in the Appendix of Title 50 of the United States Code,...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Apr 7, 2014 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law Injunctions are orders made by a court to protect individuals from specific harm. Under Tennessee law, the Chancery Court has historically been the court of equity, undertaking to prevent harm rather than punish the...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 31, 2014 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law Federal law, namely the National Labor Relations Act, passed by Congress in 1935 declares it is the “policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 26, 2014 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law Nuisance is the maintenance of a wrongful condition on a person’s own property over an unreasonable length of time which annoys or disturbs the free use of another’s property or which renders its ordinary use or physical...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Mar 17, 2014 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Sharon Frankenberg, Attorney at Law When Tennessee became a state in 1796, its Constitution allowed capital punishment. As was the case in those times, this punishment was typically accomplished by hanging. Hangings often resulted in death by slow strangulation or...
