Former Chattanooga Mayor Ron LittlefieldMayor Ron Littlefield could once more be facing a recall election.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out a lawsuit by Littlefield challenging the number of signatures on recall petitions from 2010. The Court of Appeals said a local Circuit Court judge shouldn’t have stopped Hamilton County election commissioners from having a chance to certify the petitions.
“We find that the trial court acted without jurisdiction,” Appellate Judge John W. McClarty’s opinion stated on behalf of the three-member appeals court panel.
McClarty said it’s now up to the Hamilton County Election Commission to decide whether to certify the recall petitions.
Jim Folkner, with Citizens to Recall Mayor Littlefield, one of the groups that gathered the petition names, expressed jubilation at the court’s ruling.