Tennessee § 29-41-105 - Evidence creating rebuttable presumption.

§ 29-41-105. Evidence creating rebuttable presumption.

At the hearing conducted pursuant to § 29-41-104 , evidence of any of the following creates a rebuttable presumption that the civil action is an abusive civil action and that the person filing the action is an abusive civil action plaintiff and prefiling restrictions should be imposed upon the abusive civil action plaintiff: The same or substantially similar issues between the same or substantially similar civil action parties that are the subject of the alleged abusive civil action have been litigated against the civil action defendant within the past five (5) years in another court within the judicial district or another judicial district and the actions were dismissed on the merits or with prejudice against the civil action plaintiff; The alleged abusive civil action plaintiff has used the same or substantially similar issues that are the subject of the current civil action as the basis for an adverse complaint against the civil action defendant to a regulatory or licensing board and the regulatory or licensing board dismissed the complaint after a contested case hearing in compliance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5; The alleged abusive civil action plaintiff has been sanctioned under Rule 11 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure or a similar rule or law in another state or the federal government for filing one (1) or more frivolous, vexatious, or abusive civil actions within the past ten (10) years of filing the current civil action alleged to be abusive and the previous frivolous, vexatious, or abusive civil actions involved the same or substantially the same issues between the same or substantially the same civil action parties; or A court of record in another judicial district has determined that a civil action filed against the civil action defendant was an abusive civil action and is under or has been under prefiling restrictions in that judicial district. Acts 2018, ch. 872, § 1. Code Commission Notes. Acts 2018, ch. 872, § 1 enacted a new chapter 40, §§ 29-40-101 — 29-40-107 ; however, chapter 40 was previously enacted by Acts 2018, ch. 731, § 1; therefore, the enactment by Acts 2018, ch. 872, § 1 was designated as chapter 41, §§ 29-41-101 — 29-41-107 by authority of the Code Commission. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2018, ch. 872, § 2 provided that evidence of conduct constituting an abusive civil action under this chapter that occurred prior to July 1, 2018 may be used for a motion made pursuant to § 29-41-103(a) on or after July 1, 2018. Effective Dates. Acts 2018, ch. 872, § 2. July 1, 2018.