Daniel A. Horwitz

As a friend pointed out: honestly astonishing to think about what would have happened if trump had come in and done literally nothing on the economy

Yes, and it’s great, actually! You don’t have to worry if there were a bunch of untranscribed hearings that are missing from the record!

A Balancing Act: Waiver Rules in Tennessee Appellate Practice Tennessee appellate practice is a precision business. Absent rare exce

This is the least important thing you need to read right now, but if you are interested in an article I wrote for the TBA Journal this month about Tennessee waiver law, you can read it here: www.tba.org?pg=Articles&...

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

The next Democratic Congress needs to get her back and force her to answer questions about the fuck plane

Metro Nashville: Don’t haul away your storm debris! We want to pick it up and weigh it so we get more disaster money!

Also Metro Nashville: {leaves massive woodpiles untouched all over the city and refuses to pick them up}

The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac1 In 2019, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted “the ‘Tennessee Public Participation Act’” (TPPA),2 Tennessee’s first meaningful anti-SLAPP statute.3 The TPPA ushered in a host of critical protections for people who are sued for defamation (libel or slander), false light invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and a host of other speech- and petition-based torts. The purpose of this whitepaper is to catalogue Tennessee’s TPPA jurisprudence on every issue that matters to litigators. A. THE THREE-STEP TPPA ADJUDICATION PROCESS TPPA petitions to dismiss must be adjudicated in discrete steps according to the statute’s “delineated” “dismissal procedure.”4 Appellate authority sometimes 1 By Daniel A. Horwitz, Horwitz Law, PLLC. This whitepaper is current through March 4, 2026. It is not intended to be legal advice, and it should not be relied on for that purpose. It is copyrighted material, however, and it should not be reprinted without consent. To cite this whitepaper, please use the following citation: Daniel A. Horwitz, The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac, HORWITZ.LAW (Mar. 4, 2026), https://horwitz.law/the-tennessee-public-participation-act-almanac. 2 See Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-17-101. 3 “The term ‘SLAPP’ stands for ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation,’ meaning lawsuits which might be viewed as ‘discouraging the exercise of constitutional rights, often intended to silence speech in opposition to monied interests rather than to vindicate a plaintiff’s right.’” Nandigam Neurology, 639 S.W.3d at 657. Tennessee has had a limited version of an anti-SLAPP statute since 1997. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-21-1001, et seq. 4 Reiss v. Rock Creek Constr., Inc., No. E2021-01513-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16559447, at *8 (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 1, 2022) (“[W]hen a party files a motion to dismiss based on the TPPA, the dismissal procedure delineated in the TPPA should be followed regarding…)

Here’s a more readable .pdf version: horwitz.law/the-tennesse...

The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac - Horwitz Law The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac[1] In 2019, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted “the ‘Tennessee Public Participation Act’” (TPPA),[2] Tennessee’s first meaningful anti-SLAPP statute....

I finally found the time to put this together. So it’s out!

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‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Absolutely fucking not. Goddammit

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

It cannot be said often enough that these are deeply sick and evil people who have neither scruples nor shame.

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

Well they’ve got all this extra time now so why don’t we give them mandatory jurisdiction over all the SSI appeals

“Strait of hummus”

I cackled

I would like anyone who opines favorably on anything that this Administration does on any topic to think very hard, before hitting publish, about the fact that these people are incompetent in every possible way and have the worst judgment ever measured in live human beings.

He did it intentionally. Which is a separate form of mens rea. Check mate libs

Ok I can explain this. I recently bumped into a lady and dropped my Apple Watch. I just noticed the one that I picked up says “Good morning, Susie!” I guess I picked up the wrong one? Anyway it looks like someone has repeatedly been giving “Bet max on bomb Iran” instructions into my ChatGPT app

Sadly, people still seriously underestimate the political consequences of inflation under Biden. For example, we now get one unnecessary war per point of it

Sort of like the fortune teller who would tell you that your horse would be stolen, then stole it.

Tweet from David Miller: “Quite right, comrade! "Iran today is not just asserting its right to defend itself, or even its right to defend Palestine and sustain the resistance project as a whole, but the right of all states and peoples to control their territories and freely determine their destinies." Iran is in other words defending the rights and freedoms of humanity. It is the tip of the anti-imperialist spear. We must all stand with the Islamic Republic of Iran. #DismantleZionism”

No, the Iranian government is not in fact doing this; they are in fact mass murderers who slaughtered tens of thousands of their own citizens for peacefully protesting.

I promise you can oppose this illegal, unprovoked war without making the Iranian government into the good guys.

I can only guess that it's because Gannett has forgotten that the Tennessean exists

What was it like to cover 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy? Cold! | Estes OK, I'm back, having thawed out after a few snowy Olympic weeks in the Italian Alps.

Everything is awful and the world is on fire, so I am going to choose to focus on a trivial complaint as a palate cleanser: Nashville has the blue-ribbon worst sports writer in America and it is almost comedy at this point. He's so fucking bad, week after week.

www.tennessean.com/story/sports...

I was initially skeptical of this, but #1 was “get fired” and #2 was “quit,” so I think they’re actually onto something.

This is not the most important takeaway here, but the idea that society can “no longer” believe self-exonerating claims made by police departments is ridiculous. Police departments and officers have been lying about their misconduct since the beginning of time, and it was hardly even a secret.

The massive transfer of taxpayer funding from Tennessee’s all-comers public schools to private religious schools is nearly complete.

You can just say things.

Almost makes you wonder about all of these highly credentialed people contending otherwise, who definitely aren’t arguing in extreme bad faith because they hate the left more than they care about all of the things they’ve pretended to believe in for their entire careers.

First Amendment groups decry decision to block release of special counsel report on Trump classified-documents case Jack Smith investigated Trump's storing of sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left the White House following his first term.

“Judge Cannon’s decision to permanently block the release of this extraordinarily significant report is impossible to square with the First Amendment and the common law,” said Scott Wilkens, senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. tinyurl.com/j3e2e547

This comes on the heels of my testing Gemini, which went roughly like this:

“List the emails sent or received in this client’s folder in February 2026 and identify the sender and recipient.”

“There are 38 emails. I cannot do the other thing you wanted.”

“The folder says 81.”

“What can you do”