Cases
REPRESENTATIVE CASES: A.T. by
through B.G. v. Clevel
City Schools Bd. of Education, No. 1:22-cv-110, 2024 WL 4333685 (E.D. Tenn. Sept. 27, 2024).
Attorneys Jonathan Swann Taylor
Hilary L. Magacs obtained the dismissal of a $15 million Title IX case on behalf of the Clevel
City Schools Board of Education
its employees.
Rager, Next Friend of GC v. McMinn County, No. 21-5987, 2023 WL 4927252 (6th Cir. Aug. 2, 2023).
Attorneys Jonathan Swann Taylor
Hilary L. Magacs convinced the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the trial court's denial of qualified immunity to the Sheriff of McMinn County
an officer of the McMinn County Sheriff's Office in a $10 million civil rights claim brought by the family of a deceased inmate.
Accord v. Anderson County, No. 22-5206, 2022 WL 16825411 (6th Cir. Nov. 8, 2022).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor helped secure the dismissal of a class action lawsuit filed against every county in the State of Tennessee.
George Nerren, Bill Burch,
Carrell Van Deacon v. The Bradley County Election Commission, Travis Henry, Art Rhodes, Cristy Schuch, Kezmond Pugh,
Dana Burgner, being the Election Commission Members in their Official Capacity,
Allan Jones, Bradley County Chancery Court No. 2022-CV-137.
Attorney Jonathan Taylor secured the dismissal of a Petition for Writ of Common Law Certiorari filed against his clients, the Bradley County Election Commission
its members, which challenged the outcome of the primary for the Clevel
City School Board election.
Kennedy v. Anderson County, No. 3:20-cv-295, 2021 WL 3173888 (E.D. Tenn. July 27, 2021).
Attorneys Jonathan Swann Taylor
Hilary L. Magacs obtained the dismissal of a civil rights claim for denial of healthcare filed by an inmate of the Anderson County Detention Facility.
Cotham v. Yeager, 607 S.W.3d 820 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2020).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor obtained an appellate victory, affirming the dismissal of a qui tam action filed against the Anderson County Law Director
Chief Jailer for Anderson County for the extension of a telephone services contract for the jail where the Plaintiff alleged violations of the Tennessee False Claims Act.
Weser v. Goodson, 965 F.3d 507 (6th Cir. 2020).
Attorneys Jonathan Swann Taylor
Hilary L. Magacs secured an appellate victory from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed the dismissal of the Plaintiff's federal civil rights claims against a Deputy for the Loudon County Sheriff's Department who arrested the Plaintiff.
Crowley v. Anderson County, 783 Fed. Appx. 556 (6th Cir. 2019).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor convinced the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the district court's decision to deny qualified immunity to the Law Director for Anderson County on the Plaintiff's 1983 civil conspiracy
malicious prosecution claims.
Doe v. Hamilton County Bd. of Education, 329 F. Supp. 3d 543 (E.D. Tenn. 2018).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor obtained summary judgment for his clients in a multi-million dollar, high-profile Title IX case brought by a minor plaintiff
his family, alleging that the minor plaintiff was a victim of hazing
sexual assault on a school-sponsored basketball trip in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Haire v. Anderson County, No. 3:17-cv-250, 2018 WL 1475606 (E.D. Tenn. March 26, 2018).
Attorneys Jonathan Swann Taylor
Nathaniel D. Moore obtained the dismissal of an Anderson County resident's malicious prosecution, false light invasion of privacy, defamation,
punitive damages claims filed against Anderson County, the Law Director for Anderson County,
a member of the Anderson County Commission.
In Re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation, Case No. 1:17-MD-2804 (N.D. Ohio).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor worked with a team of lawyers to help prosecute the case against prescription drug distributors of opioids on behalf of Morgan County, Tennessee,
Scott County, Tennessee, resulting in settlements of over $50 billion dedicated toward abating the harm caused by the opioid epidemic over the last several decades.
Harris v. Clevel
City Bd. of Education, No. 1:17-cv-121, 2018 WL 1124961 (E.D. Tenn. 2018).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor obtained the dismissal of the Plaintiff's Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 1983, 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,
McKinney-Vento Act claims filed against the Clevel
City Board of Education.
T
y Ray King v. John A. Ring, et al., Maury County Circuit Court No. 16257.
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor helped secure a confidential settlement on behalf of his client, T
y Ray King, for claims relating to Mr. King's 2017 crop losses.
Nichols v. Knox County, 718 Fed. Appx. 338 (6th Cir. 2017).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor secured a substantial jury verdict
appellate victory on behalf of Plaintiff Donald Nichols, who was denied care for 70 days after falling off a bunk
breaking his neck in the Knox County Detention Facility.
Vick v. Jefferson County Bd. of Education, No. 3:13-cv-730, 2016 WL 5377836 (E.D. Tenn. Sept. 9, 2016).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor obtained a complete defense verdict for the Jefferson County Board of Education after a multiple-day bench trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Smith v. Jefferson County Bd. of School Com'rs, 788 F.3d 580 (6th Cir. 2015).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor convinced the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a monetary judgment
injunction entered in favor of former teachers of an alternative school who alleged that the School Board's new contract with a self-proclaimed "religious institution" to provide alternative school services violated the Establishment Clause.
Harris v. Haynes, 445 S.W.3d 143 (Tenn. 2014).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor convinced the Tennessee Supreme Court to affirm the dismissal of an injured plaintiff's claim for uninsured motorist (UM) coverage under the terms of a coverage document issued to Anderson County
other governmental entities in Tennessee, which specifically excluded UM coverage for county employees
persons who received workers' compensation benefits.
Dyersburg-Dyer County Public Library Foundation v. Still Contractors, LLC, et al., Dyer County Circuit Court No. 2014-cv-19.
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor obtained a complete defense verdict for his client, a roofing contractor, after a week-long jury trial in Dyersburg, Tennessee.
King v. Anderson County, 419 S.W.3d 232 (Tenn. 2013).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor successfully convinced the Tennessee Supreme Court to overturn a judgment entered on behalf of an injured inmate in the Anderson County Detention Facility who was violently assaulted by a cellmate. In reversing the trial court
Court of Appeals, the Tennessee Supreme Court found that the evidence at trial did not show that jail officials knew or should have known that the Plaintiff would become the victim of such an attack. Significantly, the Court recognized for the first time that jails in Tennessee are not insurers of an inmate's safety.
Lynch ex rel. Hayes v. Loudon County, No. E2013-454-COA-R3-CV, 2013 WL 6667706 (Tenn. Ct. App. Dec. 17, 2013).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor successfully obtained a complete defense verdict in a wrongful death case tried against Loudon County. The deceased was involved in a single-car accident,
the investigating officer from the Loudon County Sheriff's Office allowed the deceased to continue driving, resulting in another wreck shortly thereafter that led to her death.
Wood v. Cocke County, No. 2:11-cv-213, 2013 WL 124123 (E.D. Tenn. Jan. 9, 2013).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor successfully obtained a complete defense verdict on an equal protection claim tried before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee after Cocke County refused to accept private roadways from the Plaintiffs' subdivision into its public road system.
Miller v. Monroe County, No. 3:09-cv-85, 2012 WL 368740 (E.D. Tenn. 2012).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor successfully obtained the dismissal of all of the Plaintiff's civil rights claims on summary judgment.
Smith v. Jefferson County Bd. Of School Com'rs, 641 F.3d 197 (6th Cir. 2011).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor successfully convinced the en banc Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that the Jefferson County Board of School Commissioners did not violate former teachers' procedural
substantive due process rights when it contracted out its alternative school services to a religious school,
that the individual members of the School Board were entitled to legislative immunity for their actions in entering into the contract.
Defoe ex rel. Defoe v. Spiva, 625 F.3d 324 (6th Cir. 2010).
Attorney Jonathan Swann Taylor successfully convinced the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm in all respects the dismissal of the Plaintiff's constitutional challenge to the Anderson County School System's ban on displaying the Confederate flag when it would result in substantial disruption or material interference with schoolwork
discipline.
