" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

According to Memphis, Tennessee's The Commercial Appeal newspaper, one manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on October 23, 2006, though it was later found dead ten miles downriver in McKellar Lake.

According to Tom Barr ( Caves of Tennessee, 1961 ), as many as 300 men worked in the cave removing the nitrous earth to the leaching vats located near the entrance.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Tennessee, of which is land and ( 2. 06 %) is water.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county, located in the " rolling hills of northwest Tennessee ", has a total area of, of which is land and ( 1. 88 %) is water.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, it was named by its founder, William T. Newby ( 1820 – 1884 ), an early immigrant on the Oregon Trail, for his hometown of McMinnville, Tennessee.

According to the 2010 Census, the city has a total area of 20. 9 square miles ( 54. 1 km² ). Some of the area is covered with water, specifically Cherokee Lake, an artificial reservoir built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1940s.

According to news reports, Arizona, Connecticut, Tennessee, Vermont, and the District of Columbia have expressed interest in participating in the inquiry.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia also require such moments of quiet in the classroom.

According to prison records, John Andrews Murrell was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia and raised in Williamson County, Tennessee.

According to the 2007 National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Journal, there were 14 state conventions ( Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Northwest-Oregon & Washington, Tennessee, Texas ( 2 ), and Washington ), 39 district associations, and over 500 churches as members.

According to the State Constitution, no more than two of Tennessee Supreme Court's five Justices can be residents of any one Grand Division and the Supreme Court rotates meeting in courthouses in each of the three divisions.

According to various laws, service of process cannot be performed on Sundays in Florida ( unless with a court order ), Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee ( unless with a court order ), Texas, Virginia, or West Virginia.

According to custom, Middle Tennessee consists of that portion of the state east of the Tennessee River's western crossing of the state ( in which it flows northward back into Tennessee after having flowed through northern Alabama ) and west of the dividing line between the Eastern and Central time zones.

According to the Tennessee State Constitution, no more than two of the state supreme court's five justices can come from any one Grand Division.

According to the Tennessee State Constitution, no more than two of the Tennessee Supreme Court's five justices can come from any one Grand Division.

According to liquor historian A. J. Baime, in the 19th century Tennessee whiskey magnate Jack Daniel enjoyed drinking his own whiskey with sugar and crushed tansy leaf.

According to Tennessee Valley Authority historians, when the TVA was created in 1933, Congress mandated that the TVA headquarters be located on the banks of the Tennessee River.

According to the records of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Red Jackson sent a letter to his father-in-law, General Harding, announcing the birth of a son he named ' William Harding Jackson ' ( I ) on September 15, 1874.

According to the constitution a county is not to be joined to a portion of another county for purposes of creating a district ; this provision has been overridden by the rulings of the Supreme Court of the United States in Baker v. Carr ( 369 US 182 1962 ) and Reynolds v. Sims ( 337 U. S. 356 1964 ) The Tennessee constitution has been amended to allow that if these rulings are ever changed or reversed, a referendum may be held to allow the senate districts to be drawn on a basis other than substantially equal population.

According to the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the General Assembly is a bicameral legislature and consists of a Senate of thirty-three members and a House of Representatives of ninety-nine members.

According to some sources, the Reform movement has maintained that a Jew who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew, and the Israeli Government has also taken that stance after Supreme Court cases and statutes.

According to the Supreme Court of the United States, the treaty power authorizes Congress to legislate under the Necessary and Proper Clause in areas beyond those specifically conferred on Congress ( Missouri v. Holland, 252 U. S. 416 ( 1920 )).

According to professor A. V. Dicey in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, the essential features of a federal constitution are: a ) A written supreme constitution in order to prevent disputes between the jurisdictions of the Federal and State authorities ; b ) A distribution of power between the Federal and State governments and c ) A Supreme Court vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and enforce the law of the land remaining independent of both the executive and legislative branches.

According to the Supreme Court Historical Society, 20 goose-quill pens, neatly crossed, are placed at the four counsel tables each day the U. S. Supreme Court is in session ; " most lawyers appear before the Court only once, and gladly take the quills home as souvenirs.

According to former United States Assistant Attorney General Walter E. Dellinger III the Supreme Court and the Attorneys General have long interpreted the Take Care Clause as standing for the proposition that the President has no inherent constitutional authority to suspend the enforcement of the laws, particularly of statutes.

According to the Supreme Court, " redress of grievances " is to be construed broadly: it includes not solely appeals by the public to the government for the redressing of a grievance in the traditional sense, but also, petitions on behalf of private interests seeking personal gain.

According to Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court,, trials can be closed at the behest of the government on account of there being " an overriding interest based on findings that closure is essential to preserve higher values and is narrowly tailored to serve that interest.

According to the Supreme Court, the Eighth Amendment forbids some punishments entirely, and forbids some other punishments that are excessive when compared to the crime, or compared to the competence of the perpetrator.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

According to the U. S. Supreme Court, the United States treated captured Barbary corsairs as prisoners of war, indicating that they were considered as legitimate privateers by at least some of their opponents, as well as by their home countries.

According to the report, all review submissions, with the exception of that provided by the Federal Magistrates ' Court, " considered that the most effective model for the delivery by the Courts of family law services would be a single family court, with two separate judicial divisions serviced by a single administration.

According to the Court, the change from a traditional common law approach to a less adversarial trial " has significant implications, not only for the conduct of family law litigation, but also for the conduct of litigation as a whole.

According to the Family Court, " in a less adversarial trial:

According to the Court, " the restrictive criminal abortion laws in effect in a majority of States today are of relatively recent vintage.

According to Blackmun, Stewart felt that the cases were a straightforward application of Younger v. Harris and recommended that the Court move forward as scheduled.

According to Josephus, there were ten entrances into the inner courts, four on the south, four on the north, one on the east and one leading east to west from the Court of Women to the court of the Israelites, named the Nicanor Gate.

According to the case law of the Supreme Court of the German Reich, the illegality of covertly conducted actions did not cancel out the principle of secrecy.

According to the opinion of the Supreme Court of the German Reich, every citizen owes his Fatherland a duty of allegiance regarding information, and endeavours towards the enforcement of existing laws may be implemented only through the utilization of responsible domestic state organs, and never by appealing to foreign governments.

According to ex-Chief of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court Jose Trias Monge, " no federal law has ever been found to be locally inapplicable to Puerto Rico.

According to a report issued in 2007 by the Basque Court of Auditors, the museum paid more than US $ 27 million for the acquisition of art between 2002 and 2005, including Serra's ' The Matter of Time ' for the cavernous ground-floor gallery.

According to a 1995 Supreme Court of India judgement the word Hindutva could be used to mean " the way of life of the Indian people and the Indian culture or ethos ".

According to a U. S. District Court Memorandum of Decision in 1993, Scientologists " have abused the federal court system by using it, inter alia, to destroy their opponents, rather than to resolve an actual dispute over trademark law or any other legal matter.

According to the Court, the statewide standard ( that a " legal vote " is " one in which there is a ' clear indication of the intent of the voter '") could not guarantee that each county would count the votes in a constitutionally permissible fashion.