# Atlas Commons research objects — civil legal aid capacity for Tennessee (FY2025) — context brief

Tennessee's LSC-funded civil legal aid capacity from the LSC Basic Field grant directory, with each figure's status labeled so a consuming agent can weight it correctly: the measured LSC records (provider count, awarded grant dollars, service-area types, and the Census-based poverty population LSC allocates by); one computed figure — LSC funding per person in poverty — a transparent ratio neither LSC nor Census publishes, with its formula disclosed; and the interpretive boundary (what this funding/capacity surface is, and is not). Source: LSC Basic Field grant directory. CC0.

Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify:

- **4 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $12,328,281 in Tennessee (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **956,102 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering Tennessee (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory — poverty population (U.S. Census/ACS) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC grant counts by service-area type in Tennessee (FY2025): Basic Field 5** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC civil legal aid funding is $11.86 per person in poverty in Tennessee (FY2025) — a derived ratio** — DERIVED · Justice Atlas — derived ratio (LSC allocation ÷ service-area poverty population, over the same set of grants) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **What this legal-aid surface is — and is NOT — for Tennessee (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **Tennessee sets a 6 months (slander) / 1 year (libel) civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-103 (slander); § 28-3-104 (libel))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-26-116)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for personal injury (Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 1 year (injury) / 4 years (property) civil statute of limitations for product liability (Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-28-103)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-105)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-105)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 6 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-109(a)(3))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Tennessee sets a 6 years civil statute of limitations for contract written (Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-109(a)(3))** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://www.capitol.tn.gov/legislation/codes.html)
- **Why these statute-of-limitations periods are NOT your deadline (the L5 boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the statutes above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)

Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/justice/states/tn.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Tennessee — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 4 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 5 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 12328281 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**Tennessee — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (1): Basic Field — 5…
**Tennessee — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (5): Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands — TN-10 — Basic Field — 4486365 — 378323; Legal Aid of East Tennessee — TN-9 — Basic Field — 3660807 — 308706; West Tennessee Legal Services, Inc. — TN-4 — Basic Field — 2111084 — 178022…