What is a Certificate of Service?

By Jed McKeehan When a lawsuit is filed against someone the defendant is “served” with a copy of it.  This is done by giving the defendant a document called a summons by a process server. However, after that initial service upon the defendant, when either the...

Is Time Moving Faster?

By Ralphine Major On this day as I write, it is already the 25th day of the month.  I am reminded that this is the last day of the school year!  What a year it has been!  I also realize that in only seven more months, it will be Christmas!  Unbelievable!  Time.  It...

Old Cars and Old People

  By Joe Rector I bought a new Pathfinder in 1987. In past columns I’ve talked about that car. The truth is I love that hunk of metal. Too many memories, good and bad, have been made in that car that getting rid of it is unthinkable. Amy isn’t thrilled with the...

Blest be the tie

By Tom Mattingly In the wee hours of the morning after Tennessee had dispatched Arkansas in an exhausting six overtimes in October 2002, someone spoke up and said that the Vols’ 41-38 win was “better than a tie.” Haywood Harris a football purist above all else, looked...