Tennessee Code Annotated

Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-41-105 (2026)

Evidence creating rebuttable presumption

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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:

(1) 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;

(2) 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;

(3) 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

(4) 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.

Added by 2018 Tenn. Acts, ch. 872, s 1, eff. 7/1/2018.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 2022–2025 · leading case: Timothy Wilson v. Tawana Wilson (2022).

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Timothy Wilson v. Tawana Wilson (2022). · cites it 5× “Tracking the language of Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 29-41-105 (1)6 and 29-41-101(1)(C), Ms.”

Loring Just. v. Kim Nelson (2024). · cites it 4× “The Trial Court determined that the Juvenile Court’s May 2021 ACA order satisfied the requirement of Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-41-105 (4), which provides in relevant part: At the hearing conducted pursuant to § 29-41-104, evidence of any of the following creates a rebuttable…”

William Joseph Robinette v. Tina Robinette (2025). · cites it 3× “We next address Plaintiffs’ argument that Widow failed to created a rebuttable presumption of an abusive civil action pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-41-105 . Plaintiffs again rely on a misreading of the ACA statutory scheme.”

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