Dixie Cooper News Today

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - A doctor can’t be compelled to testify about the performance of a nurse midwife before he arrived to deliver a baby who suffered hypoxic brain injury, Tennessee’s highest court ruled, rejecting arguments by trial lawyers that as a supervising physician he should be ordered to offer his expert opinion on whether the nurse met the standard of care.

"The Wild Women of Winedale," a comedy that focuses on three women at crossroads in their lives, will be performed from Jan. 7-Feb. 5 at Theatre Suburbia, 5201 Mitchelldale St.,