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Nashville Home Studio Ban Goes to Tennessee Supreme Court

Nashville Home Studio Ban Goes to Tennessee Supreme Court
The Tennessee Supreme Court in Nashville, Tenn. on July 20, 2013. Thomas R Machnitzki via Wikimedia Commons/GNU FDL
Matthew Vadum
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A home music studio owner in Nashville, Tennessee, is taking his long-running appeal of aggressive local zoning restrictions against home-based businesses to the Tennessee Supreme Court after the court recently agreed to hear his case.

The court decided on July 12 to hear the appeal from record producer Elijah “Lij” Shaw and hairstylist Pat Raynor, who sued the city in 2017 after it ordered their home businesses shuttered. The two plaintiffs are represented by the Institute for Justice and the Beacon Center of Tennessee.