Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-6-110 (2026)
Appearance in federal courts
✓ current as of May 2026
The attorney general and reporter shall attend in person, or by assistant, and prosecute or defend, as the case may be, any and all suits, civil or criminal, in the supreme court of the United States, in the United States court of appeals for the judicial circuit of the United States comprising the state of Tennessee, or in any of the district courts of the United States held in the state of Tennessee, in which suit or suits the state may be a party, or in which the state has or may have interests of a pecuniary nature.
Acts 1877, ch. 5, § 1; Shan., § 5757; Code 1932, § 9957; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-610.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2018–2022 · leading case: State of Tenn. v. United States Dep't of State, 931 F.3d 499 (6th Cir. 2019).
State of Tenn. v. United States Dep't of State, 931 F.3d 499 (6th Cir. 2019). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-6-110 (emphases added).”
Tennessee v. U.S. Dep't of State, 329 F. Supp. 3d 597 (W.D. Tenn. 2018). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-6-110 provides that "[t]he attorney general and reporter shall attend in person, or by assistant, and prosecute or defend .”
Harris v. Hutson (W.D. Tenn. 2022). “Tenn Code Ann. § 8-6-110. Tennessee law also assigns the Attorney General the duty of representation in “the trial and direction of all civil litigated matters and administrative proceedings in which the state or any officer, department, agency, board, commission or…”
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