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United States — Tennessee
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The University of Tennessee and the state university and community college system must establish a sick leave bank for their non-faculty employees.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter is appointed by the supreme court judges and serves an eight-year term.
United States — Tennessee
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The state legal department must maintain offices in Nashville, and the attorney general and reporter is its executive head.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter may appoint assistants and other personnel, and assistants must take an oath and serve as assigned. The attorney general and reporter must also report staffing changes to the general assembly every July 1.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter gets the same salary as an associate justice, assistants’ pay is fixed by the attorney general and reporter within appropriations, and all such salaries are paid monthly from the state treasury on warrants from the commissioner of finance and administration.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter and the assistants are entitled to reimbursement of necessary business expenses, if the required itemized statement is filed and certified; assistant statements also need approval by the attorney general and reporter.
United States — Tennessee
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The governor must hire additional counsel when the state’s interest requires it, and the governor, secretary of state, and attorney general and reporter may set the compensation they consider just.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter and assistants are subject to the same disabilities, restrictions, disqualifications, and office-misconduct proceedings as district attorneys general and court judges. The section also does not bar certain voluntary pro bono legal services programs that meet funding and insurance condi
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter, and any assistant, may not take or receive a fee for defending a supposed offender in the inferior courts.
United States — Tennessee
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This section lists the attorney general and reporter’s duties, including representing the state in litigation, giving legal advice and opinions, and notifying certain officials about specified lawsuits.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter must personally, or through an assistant, appear and handle certain civil or criminal federal cases involving the state.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter may use special funds to hire, reassign, or contract for personnel for prompt and fair post-conviction work in capital cases.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter may investigate and prosecute certain judges and prosecutors when probable cause exists and the local district attorney has a conflict of interest.
United States — Tennessee
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Supreme court clerks must enroll opinions within 10 days after delivery, then deliver the original opinion to the attorney general and reporter for publication; reports must be published within 60 days after enough material is provided to complete a volume.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter must report certain supreme court opinions, may report and distribute the office’s opinions and other significant legal matters, and the supreme court and certain court of appeals opinions must be officially published, with stated exceptions.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter must prepare case reports, include required case and judge details, add a brief facts synopsis when needed, and prepare a correct index for each volume.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter may choose a printer and controls publication and binding of reports. Five years after a report is published, its copyright reverts to the state of Tennessee.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter must print and bind official opinions annually and may omit obsolete opinions from the publication.
United States — Tennessee
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The attorney general and reporter must have enough report volumes printed and bound, and the reports must be available at limited cost or free to specified government recipients.
United States — Tennessee
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The comptroller of the treasury must distribute specified copies of each report volume to courts, the secretary of state, the state librarian, and the University of Tennessee.