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State Supreme Court hears challenge to law changing Metro Nashville airport board appointments
Summary
Counsel for the state argued a statute altering the Metro Nashville Airport Authority’s appointment rules is a matter of statewide concern and not a forbidden local law; Metro Nashville countered that the act singles out the city and cannot be saved by severing timing provisions. The court probed tests for when the Home Rule Amendment bars state encroachment.
The State Supreme Court heard oral argument over a law that changes how the Metro Nashville Airport Authority’s board is constituted, including adding an eighth seat and altering appointing authorities.
Matt Rice, arguing for the state, told the court the statute contains no June 2025 deadline and that the population trigger “turns on the 2020 federal census or a subsequent federal census,” so the provision applies beyond 2025. He proposed a two-part framework for evaluating whether a statute is “local in form or effect”: first, whether multiple localities could fall within the law’s scope without…
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