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U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty: Responding to your message


Dear Mr. MemphisTV,

Thank you for taking the time to contact me about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.  I always appreciate hearing from Tennesseans, and I take your thoughts seriously.

The One Big Beautiful Bill is a historic step in restoring and protecting the American dream for generations to come; the dream to own a home; to raise a family; to have a good-paying job; to give our children a better life and future than the previous generation.  That is why I came to the Senate—to help leave Tennessee, and our nation, a better place for our children.

This legislation delivers the single largest tax cut in American history.  It provides unprecedented and permanent tax relief for small businesses.  It eliminates federal taxes on tips and overtime pay.  It lowers the tax burden for seniors on Social Security, while the child tax credit and standard deduction are increased.  These policies will drive economic growth and increase employment opportunities for working families.    

Our federal government must be a responsible steward of Americans’ hard-earned taxpayer dollars.  The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers a historic reduction in wasteful spending, and takes critical steps to preserve Medicaid for the most vulnerable while strengthening our rural hospitals.  We roll back failed, Biden-era Green New Deal subsidies.  We block taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood to protect the unborn.  We are getting working-age men and women back into the workforce.  Smart energy policy will unleash domestic energy production and lower costs for all Americans.

The legislation will make every American safer, too.  Unprecedented funding for border security will allow President Trump to finish the wall, secure our border, and give law enforcement the tools to remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities.  Further, it makes critical investments to ensure our military men and women have the tools they need to keep us safe.

This bill will usher in—as President Trump has called it—the Golden Age of America and deliver on his promise to Make America Great Again.  I am pleased that, together, we have delivered on the president’s promises and set the stage for the great American comeback.
Thank you again for writing.  I encourage you to continue following my efforts to serve all Tennesseans and to provide feedback.  Please accept my best wishes. 

                                                                         Sincerely,
                                                                    
                                                                         Bill Hagerty
                                                                         United States Senator
 

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Received: Nov. 13, 2025, 12:49 P.M.

[News] About the Litigation of the Tyre Nichols’ Case

The Times tried to check the current or latest status of Mr. Tyre Nichols’ case in the federal court on March 6, 2024. (The State case is different from this Federal case.)

The civil complaint was filed on April 19, 2023. And until today on March 6, 2024, the total of 161 documents were filed in the docket of the court.

This is a civil action. The jury trial has been set on January 27, 2025, Monday, at 09:30 AM in Courtroom 4, in Memphis, Tennessee before Judge Mark S. Norris according to the court docket.

The City of Memphis and Memphis police chief, Ms. Cerelyn Davis filed the motion to dismiss on July 7, 2023, while arguing in the memorandum in support of the motion, “The primary question that this suit presents, however, is whether the City should be civilly liable for Mr. Nichols’s death under 42 U.S.C. § 1983” and “Although this situation is tragic, the answer is no.” (from the page 2 of the memorandum.)

Plaintiff filed, on August 14, 2023, the “PLAINTIFF’S RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS.”

And the City of Memphis and Chief Cerelyn Davis filed, on August 14, 2023, “REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS OF THE CITY OF MEMPHIS, CHIEF CERELYN DAVIS……”

Defendant Haley filed his initial disclosures on October 17, 2023.

By the way, the federal criminal trial is scheduled for September 9, 2024.

And defendent Desmond Mills, Jr.’s plea agreement in the Federal Criminal proceedings has been accepted.

These are the basic information of the case as below.

Court:
U.S. District Court Western District of Tennessee (Memphis)

Case Number:
2:23-cv-02224-MSN-atc

Plaintiff v. Defendants:
Wells v. CITY OF MEMPHIS et al

Judges:
Mark S. Norris, presiding
Annie T. Christoff, referral

Date filed: 04/19/2023
Date of last filing: 03/01/2024

Cause: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

Plaintiff:
RowVaughn Wells
(Individually and as Administratrix Ad Litem of the Estate of Tyre Deandre Nichols, deceased.)

represented by:

Antonio Romanucci (ROMANUCCI & BLANDIN, LLC)

Bhavani Raveendran (ROMANUCCI & BLANDIN, LLC)

Brooke Cluse (BEN CRUMP LAW, PLLC)

Bryce Thomas Hensley (STINAR GOULD GRIECO & HENSLEY, PLLC IL) (TERMINATED: 01/25/2024)

Sarah M. Raisch (ROMANUCCI & BLANDIN, LLC)

David Louis Mendelson , I (MENDELSON LAW FIRM)


Defendant:

CITY OF MEMPHIS (a municipality)

represented by:

Bruce McMullen (BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, P.C.)

Freeman B. Foster (BAKER DONELSON)

Jennie Vee Silk (BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, PC)

Defendant:
Chief Cerelyn Davis (in her official capacity)

represented by:

Bruce McMullen

Freeman B. Foster

Jennie Vee Silk


Defendant:

Emmitt Martin, III

represented by:

Florence M. Johnson (JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, PLLC)


Defendant:

Officer Demetrius Haley (in his individual capacity)

represented by:

Stephen R. Leffler (LAW OFFICE OF STEPHEN R. LEFFLER, P.C.)

Defendant:

Justin Smith (in his individual capacity)

represented by:

Martin W. Zummach (SPARKMAN ZUMMACH, P.C.)


Defendant:

Desmond Mills, Jr. (in his individual capacity)

represented by:

Clyde W. Keenan (KEENAN LAW & CONSULTING)

Defendant:

Tadarrius Bean (in his individual capacity)

represented by:

John Keith Perry , Jr. (PERRY GRIFFIN, PC)


Defendant:

Preston Hemphill (in his individual capacity)

represented by:

Deborah E. Godwin (GODWIN MORRIS LAURENZI & BLOOMFIELD, P.C.)

Mary Elizabeth McKinney (GODWIN MORRIS LAURENZI & BLOOMFIELD, P.C.)

Defendant:

Robert Long (in his individual capacity)

represented by:

Darrell J. O’Neal (LAW OFFICE OF DARRELL J. O’NEAL)

Defendant:

JaMichael Sandridge (in his individual capacity)

represented by:

Laura Elizabeth Smittick (SMITTICK LAW FIRM)

Defendant:

Michelle Whitaker (in her individual capacity)

represented by:

Robert L. J. Spence , Jr (ROBERT L. J. SPENCE, JR.)

Andrew Mark Horvath (MORGAN & MORGAN – MEMPHIS, LLC) (TERMINATED: 11/15/2023)

Jarrett Michael Dean Spence (SPENCE PARTNERS)

Defendant:

DeWayne Smith (in his individual capacity and as an agent of the City of Memphis)

represented by:

Deborah E. Godwin

Mary Elizabeth McKinney


Written by Mr. Hwang

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Published: March 6, 2024, Wednesday, at 12:43AM.



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Published: January 26, 2023