Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee

In this case, the State of Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter issued a legal opinion which affected the civil action of Edward Bonny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby Et AL, M2017-00808-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. 2017) (17C133). This legal opinion, filed in the brief to the State of Tennessee Court of Appeals for the Middle District at Nashville, affected Tenn. Code. Ann. § 4-4-105(a) (1), Title V of the United States Code (5 U.S.C. § 6103) does not address compensation. In essence, the State of Tennessee is not required to pay earned wages to the Plaintiff / Appellant for the substituted federal and state holiday of Columbus Day. The questions presented are:

1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in understanding the legal opinion of the State of Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter denied the Plaintiff / Appellant earned wages and this iegal opinion affects all employees of the State of Tennessee to which wages for full-time employees are reduced one day. The denial of compensation for the substituted federal holiday is a violation of 29 CFR § 541.602, to which a fulltime, exempt, employee’s wages cannot be decreased due to the closing of state offices.

2. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in understanding the Defendant / Appellee did "NOT" send the