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KNOX • ANDERSON • JEFFERSON • CAMPBELL • CUMBERLAND CLAIBORNE COCKE • GRAINGER • HAMBLEN • BLOUNT • LOUDON • MONROE • MORGAN • ROANE • SCOTT • SEVIER • UNION Ledger FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 ‘I do feel compelled to give back’ Yunsan’s unlikely journey from Panama to citizenship to TN Court of Appeals clerk Story by Nancy Henderson begins on page 2 ern Express, Inc, BEHIND THE WHEEL Hampshire Insurance Company, Western Express, Inc, Def Atty(s): John W Barringer, 08/30/2010, 10C3341 October 8 - 14, 2010 Patricia McClarren vs Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Law & GovernmentPltf(s): James T Collins, Def(s): Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Def Good used car PublicAtty(s): David John Deming, 08/30/2010, 10C3343 Pltf(s): James A Richard Dicaire vs Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark Investment LLC, Records Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel or piece of junk? 08/26/2010, 10C3303 Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark James T Collins vs Rogers Group Inc, Investment LLC, Def Atty(s): Stephen B Morton, 08/26/2010, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Rogers Group Inc, Def Atty(s): Heather E Hardt, 08/26/2010,inside 10C3308 & online James A Wells vs Jenco Construction Inc, Getting a used car report Wells, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): JencoTNLedger.com Construction Inc,Pltf(s): Def Atty(s):Judy R Lawson, Jennifer S White, 08/25/2010, 10C3282 Jessica Grimwood vs Intrepid USA Healthcare Services, before you buy can save you CareerPltf(s): Jessica Corner Grimwood, ...................................... Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Intrepid USA 3 CommunityHealthcare Services, Calendar Def Atty(s): Clifford .......................... Wilson, 08/27/2010, 4 a bundle. But getting the Judy R Lawson vs Nursing & Oneida, News PltfBriefs Atty(s): David ......................................... Harold Dunaway, Def(s): Nursing & Oneida, Def 8 Newsmakers .......................................9 right report matters. Jordan Sanders vs Dillons Welding Inc and Employers, P18 Public NoticesPltf(s): Jordan Sanders, ..................... Pltf Atty(s): Donald D6-7, Zuccarello, 14-17 Def(s): Puzzles ...............................................13 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville AUGUST 6-12, 2021 Photo by Michael Patrick |The Ledger Carlos Yunsan in the law library at the Tennessee Supreme Court offices in Knoxville. Yansan is a judicial law clerk to Tennessee Court of Appeals Judge Kristi M. Davis. Yunsan earns his slice of American dream By Nancy Henderson that way,” he recalls. of 1994. It was a fun opportunity, he TN Court of After struggling for many years to thought, and maybe he’d get to visit Six n the 27 years since he’d moved become a permanent U.S. resident, Flags Over Georgia. Appeals clerk from Panama to East Tennessee, then ve more before he’d be eligible “And once I got here,” he says, “I attorney Carlos Yunsan says he had for citizenship, the former public health decided to stay.” shares story of his never felt the sting of discrimination coordinator and attorney says he is not After spending the summer in his until Jan. 6, when he made a afraid to challenge those who doubt his home country, he returned to study immigration to US Facebook post condemning the rioters loyalty to this country. He now serves as a nutrition on a half-scholarship at the Iwho attacked the U.S. Capitol. judicial law clerk at the Tennessee Court University of Tennessee. “I was always Right away, a longtime friend – of Appeals in Knoxville, where he spends interested in health because of my someone who’d always been kind to him his day reading legal briefs, reviewing cases mother [a pediatrician]. But I knew also – shot back, “You weren’t born here, so and drafting opinions and oral arguments I didn’t want to be a physician. She had you don’t have a dog in this hunt!” for Judge Kristi Davis. a lot of late hours and she worked in the “I didn’t take well to that,” Yunsan says. An athletic young man whose physics emergency room, and I wasn’t interested “I said something [in response] like, ‘ is and math skills had already won him a in that part of the job.” is coming from somebody who had to do full engineering scholarship in Panama, Yunsan loved the seasonal snow, spring absolutely nothing to be a citizen of this Yunsan abruptly found himself on a blooms and autumn leaf color he’d never country other than being born.’” di erent path when a Maryville College experienced in the year-round humidity Yunsan, 43, wept that night, not alumnus living in his country told him and high temperatures of Panama. e because of the insensitive Facebook post about the school’s strong ESL program. move, however, brought some quirky but because of the people who took up for At 16 and just out of high school, Yunsan language hurdles. him. “ ey just basically let this [other] and a half dozen buddies traveled to person know that it was not OK to be the U.S. to study English in the winter YUNSAN >> PAGE 10 AUGUST 6-12, 2021 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville Page 3 Use your equity 70% favor vaccine requirement Better options than these Survey: Employees four cash-raising pitfalls concerned about If you’ve got more won’t face the kind of ve- or six- gure bills than money, the bills that could bankrupt you. returning to work usual advice is to trim Beware high-cost loans expenses and nd Just when we thought we were out of additional income. 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