Tennessee Supreme Court, 1993

The Court held that the rehabilitative alimony award was alimony in solido and therefore was not subject to modification, despite being payable monthly and terminating upon the wife's death or remarriage.

The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed the denial of post-conviction relief to a prisoner serving life as a habitual criminal who attacked the guilty pleas underlying his six predicate convictions. The Court held that the 'but for' rule of State v.

The court held that Union Carbide’s gains from its extraordinary 1986 sale of business lines and its headquarters were nonbusiness earnings under Tennessee’s transactional test, and therefore were not taxable in Tennessee.

The court held that a challenge to the voluntariness of facially valid guilty-plea judgments generally cannot be brought through Tennessee habeas corpus because such judgments are voidable, not void.

The Tennessee Supreme Court adopted a clarified framework for applying Rule 56, including the requirements that disputed facts be material and genuine and that a properly supported motion shifts a burden of production to the nonmoving party.