Disrupting meeting or procession
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State v. Fielden (2006)
Most recently applied in WILLIAMS, CONGRESSWOMAN v. POWELL (October 2024)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 2020 (2nd Ex
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.
(1) A person commits an offense if, with the intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession, or gathering, the person substantially obstructs or interferes with the meeting, procession, or gathering by physical action or verbal utterance.
(2) A violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
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.