Tennessee Statutes
§ 17-2-102 — Incompetency of supreme court judges
Tennessee·Title 17
The judges of the supreme court, within the first week of each term, or as soon thereafter as the fact comes to their knowledge, shall certify to the governor all cases upon the docket in which any of them are incompetent to sit, upon the receipt of which certificate the governor shall appoint and commission the requisite number of competent lawyers to dispose of the causes.
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Related
Holder v. Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission
937 S.W.2d 877 (Tennessee Supreme Court, 1996)
State Ex Rel. Hooker v. Thompson
249 S.W.3d 331 (Tennessee Supreme Court, 1996)
Hooker v. Thompson
(Tennessee Supreme Court, 1999)
Legislative History
Code 1858, § 3919 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 68, § 1); Shan., § 5715; Code 1932, § 9901; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 17-202.
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