Court issues summonses to TN chiefs
Safety's Long, revenue's Gerregano being personally served original complaint alleging systematic extortion of the public under color of 'financial responsibility'
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Thursday, March 20, 2025 — A court in Nashville 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 ordered process servers to deliver them in the “Eye of Sauron” case that says the state’s mandatory auto insurance policy “is an extortion program under corporate capture in service to insurance CEOs and their shareholders,” says Tulis.
Tulis of Eagle Radio Network sues under a 93-page complaint to overturn the two departments’ administration of the Tennessee financial responsibility law of 1977, or TFRL. He is conducting two administrative cases in revenue, and in U.S. district court in midstate has filed for injunction in a suit against the department and Gerregano personally.
Tulis filed his state case Nov. 1, 2024, in Chattanooga with the action landing in Davidson County chancery court before Judge Anne Martin. Hamilton County judge Boyd Patterson and the Tennessee Supreme Court denied the case a hearing before the three-judge panel on grounds the program’s abrogations of law — which Tulis puts at 28 — don’t offend the constitution.
The mass tag revocation program is “100 percent rogue,” Tulis says, generating 40,800 criminal convictions a year on average, most against innocent people. The suit demands the EIVS tag surveillance system be “decertified and recalibrated to operate within the law, with filters,” Tulis says. “Sauron burns out the landscape and destroys the livings of many of the 1 million poor who don’t have car insurance. Twelve thousand dunning letters a week — notice or revocation. Towed cars, poor people cast to the side of the road. The social cost of big profits.”
The people obliged to buy auto insurance are those with suspended licenses and tags who want to regain the privilege, filings say. They get the privilege restored on condition of having an “extraordinary type” of insurance, Tulis says. “The motor vehicle liability policy required by law stands alone among insurance products. It’s certified. It comes with the ‘financial responsibility insurance certificate,’ y’know, the SR-22.”
One agency case involves Tulis’ 2000 Honda Odyssey minivan. On Wednesday Gerregano gave notice he will hear Tulis’ petition for reversal starting April 9 after a hearing officer in a 62-page order ruled against him, saying the TFRL insurance law is designed to forbid poor people from using the roads.
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