Tennessee § 17-2-102 - Incompetency of supreme court judges.
Full text of Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated § 17-2-102 — Incompetency of supreme court judges., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 17-2-102. Incompetency of supreme court judges.
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. Code 1858, § 3919 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 68, § 1); Shan., § 5715; Code 1932, § 9901; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 17-202. Cross-References. Incompetency of judges, appointment of special judges, Tenn. Const., art. VI, § 11. Law Reviews. Constitutional Law — Necessary Qualifications for Judgeships, 30 Tenn. L. Rev. 640. The Constitutional Policy That Judges Be Learned in the Law (Frederic S. Le Clercq), 47 Tenn. L. Rev. 689. The Tennessee Court System — Supreme Court (Frederic S. Le Clercq), 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 191. Cited: Freeman v. Felts, 208 Tenn. 201, 344 S.W.2d 550, 1961 Tenn. LEXIS 412 (1961); La Fever v. Ware, 211 Tenn. 393, 365 S.W.2d 44, 1963 Tenn. LEXIS 358 (1963); Holder v. Tennessee Judicial Selection Comm'n, 937 S.W.2d 877, 1996 Tenn. LEXIS 688 (Tenn. 1996).
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