Tag: David Tulis

  • Radio Sues Safety Boss over Criminal Traffic stops 

    Radio Sues Safety Boss over Criminal Traffic stops 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 544-2285  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Monday, Oct 5, 2026 —  Radio investigative reporter David Tulis has filed a lawsuit that he says will overturn a long-standing program that contradicts “the form of government in Tennessee and the duty to respect innocent members of the traveling public.” “What this lawsuit does…

  • Radio Suit: LPRs Put Innocents on Criminal Ledger

    Radio Suit: LPRs Put Innocents on Criminal Ledger

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 544-2285  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 — A lawsuit filed today asks a judge to shut down Hamilton County’s license-plate reader system for good. The petition names Sheriff Austin Garrett and alleges the program violates constitutional rights. Radio journalist David Tulis filed a complaint alleging that the…

  • Radio to Appeals Court: Insurance Op a Fraud

    Radio to Appeals Court: Insurance Op a Fraud

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 544-2285  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Monday, May 18, 2026 – A radio journalist suing two state commissioners plans Tuesday to tell the Tennessee Court of Appeals in Nashville that its four judges would be unhappy if their law degrees were evidenced by an e-mail from a law school registrar and not a…

  • Judge Yields in Journalist Access Suit

    Judge Yields in Journalist Access Suit

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 544-2285 davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, April 3, 2026 – A judge sued Monday before the Supreme Court relented on Thursday and told a radio journalist that he would withdraw his denial over use of media equipment in his courtroom.  Mike Harris, a general sessions court judge in Lawrence County, sent NoogaRadio…

  • Tulis Rips Mandatory Auto Insurance Bill

    Tulis Rips Mandatory Auto Insurance Bill

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    CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Thursday, March 12, 2026 — A radio reporter suing to end universal mandatory auto insurance says a bill advancing in the legislature “will continue a state-based fraud to abuse the poor.” HB 1690 would make registration of any motor vehicle contingent on the owner’s showing paperwork indicating insurance coverage. “These fraudsters supporting the…

  • Injunction Plea Hits ‘Mandatory Insurance’

    Injunction Plea Hits ‘Mandatory Insurance’

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 544-2285  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025 — A radio journalist is asking a Hamilton County judge to slam shut the eyelid of a surveillance eyeball used to revoke poor people’s auto tags because they are not customers of the insurance industry. Radio journalist David Tulis, who has been fighting…

  • Tax Chief to Defend Program Hit as ‘Fraud’

    Tax Chief to Defend Program Hit as ‘Fraud’

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 544-2285  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Monday, Nov. 3, 2025 — A radio journalist is demanding a Hamilton County judge hear Tennessee’s tax boss explain how his department’s universal mandatory auto insurance program isn’t a fraud, as alleged in a lawsuit brought on behalf of his listeners. Revenue commissioner David Gerregano is in…

  • Sheriff Notice Demands Traffic Stop Reform 

    Sheriff Notice Demands Traffic Stop Reform 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 — A notice served on Hamilton County officials this week demands that traffic stops be decriminalized by referrals of wrongdoing to the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. An investigative radio reporter suing deputy Brandon Bennett, Sheriff Austin Garrett and the county…

  • Injunction Targets ‘Eye of Sauron’ Scam 

    Injunction Targets ‘Eye of Sauron’ Scam 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Monday, Oct. 6, 2025 — A lawsuit demands Tennessee revenue commissioner David Gerregano be ordered to decertify what a journalist pushing the case calls “The Eye of Sauron.” The petition for preliminary injunction in Hamilton County circuit court says the department illegally runs a universal mandatory auto…

  • Sheriff, Journalist Duel in 6th Circuit

    Sheriff, Journalist Duel in 6th Circuit

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Monday, Sept. 1, 2025 — Sheriff Austin Garrett and radio journalist David Tulis have taken their dispute over arrest powers before federal appeals court judges in Cincinnati. Garrett says Tulis’ arrest and jailing in a traffic stop Nov. 22, 2023, was legal because deputy Brandon Bennett had probable…

  • Appeal Forces County to Back Traffic Stops 

    Appeal Forces County to Back Traffic Stops 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Tuesday, July 8, 2025 – A radio reporter who says traffic stops are the most powerful extension of Jim Crow abuse upon the weak and poor is forcing Hamilton County to defend traffic stops before the U.S. court of appeals in the 6th circuit. The county has…

  • Reporter Appeals Insurance Fraud Cases

    Reporter Appeals Insurance Fraud Cases

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA,  Tenn., Thursday, June 26, 2025 –  A journalist who took a sabbatical from a radio news talk microphone to sue public officials over misconduct says he doubts he will get a reply in a final pleadings in a 2-year-old case to topple what he calls “The…

  • Appeal Asks Decriminalized Traffic Stops 

    Appeal Asks Decriminalized Traffic Stops 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Thursday, May 8, 2025  – A radio journalist suing to decriminalize traffic stops is taking his case to the 6th circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati because “we don’t need handcuffs, draggings and jail cells for managing any Tennessee occupational privilege.” David Tulis of Eagle Radio Network…

  • Tulis Files Override Appeal on Injunction 

    Tulis Files Override Appeal on Injunction 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680   davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, May 2, 2025 —  A radio journalist suing two state commissioners is asking a judge for permission to go over her head to challenge her refusal to stop a program that generates 40,832 criminal arrests a year. David Tulis is suing to halt what he calls…

  • Judge Urged to Halt 40,800 Arrests 

    Judge Urged to Halt 40,800 Arrests 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com [Link to hearing on Substack] CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Thursday, April 17, 2025 — A chancery court judge in Nashville today is reviewing competing filings on a proposed injunction to shut down what a lawsuit calls the “Eye of Sauron” run by the Tennessee Department of Revenue. Chancellor Anne Martin at…

  • Journalist to Argue on Fraud Injunction 

    Journalist to Argue on Fraud Injunction 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE— David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Tuesday, April 8, 2025 — Radio journalist David Tulis will ask a chancery court judge in Nashville to halt what he calls “the Eye of Sauron” program revoking tags of people too poor or unwilling to buy auto insurance.  Judge Anne Martin will hear arguments Thursday at 11 a.m. in Davidson County chancery…

  • Tax Boss Says Dismiss Suit for Length 

    Tax Boss Says Dismiss Suit for Length 

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, April 4, 2025 — Tennessee’s commissioner of revenue says a lawsuit alleging a mass fraud by his department should be booted as too long. In a filing in Davidson County Chancery Court, Cmsr. David Gerregano says the 93-page complaint by Eagle Radio Network reporter David Tulis…

  • Suit Says Fraud Boosts State $156 Mil

    Suit Says Fraud Boosts State $156 Mil

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, March 28, 2025 – A radio journalist suing the commissioner of revenue alleging mandatory auto insurance is a fraud says the state’s  “Eye of Sauron” program skims $156.39 million in taxes from illicit premiums. In a filing this week in Davidson County Chancery Court, David Tulis…

  • Court Issues Summonses to TN Chiefs

    Court Issues Summonses to TN Chiefs

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680 davidtuliseditor@gmail.com  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Thursday, March 20, 2025 — A Nashville court has issued summonses to two state commissioners in a case alleging fraud by departments of revenue under David Gerregano and safety under Jeff Long. Chancery court in Davidson County issued two summonses. On Wednesday radio investigative reporter David Tulis…

  • Fraud Defense Ties up 7 State Attorneys

    Fraud Defense Ties up 7 State Attorneys

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Monday. March 17, 2025 — A journalist says he has two state commissioners “surrounded” with his “Eye of Sauron” litigation opposed by five state attorneys fighting to keep alive a program two Gov. Bill Lee appointees are running. David Tulis is suing David Gerregano, an attorney and commissioner…