Notwithstanding any applicable statute of limitation to the contrary, any party filing an action in a federal court that is subsequently dismissed for lack of jurisdiction shall have one (1) year from the date of such dismissal to timely file such action in an appropriate state court.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-1-115
Dismissed federal court actions
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Mccurry v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc. (2002)
Most recently applied in Richard Moreno v. City of Clarksville (September 2015)
Acts 1984, ch. 520, § 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.