                        IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE
                                   AT NASHVILLE


     STATE OF TENNESSEE, ex rel.               )
     JOHN JAY HOOKER,                          )
                                               )
                   Appellant,                  )
                                               )
     v.                                        )      No. 01A01-9606-CH-00259
                                               )
     BROOK THOMPSON, et al.,                   )
                                               )
                   Appellees,                  )
                                               )
                                               )
     STATE OF TENNESSEE, ex rel.               )
     LEWIS LASKA,                              )
                                               )
                   Appellant,                  )
                                               )
     v.                                        )      No. 01A01-9606-CH-00280
                                               )
     BROOK THOMPSON, et al.,                   )
                                               )
                   Appellees,                  )
                                               )
                                               )
     STATE OF TENNESSEE, ex rel.               )
     LEWIS LASKA,                              )
                                               )
                   Appellant,                  )
                                               )
     v.                                        )      No. 01S01-9606-CH-00114
                                               )
     BROOK THOMPSON, et al.,                   )
                                               )
                   Appellees.                  )

     ____________________________________________________________________

                                    ORDER
     ____________________________________________________________________


            The matters currently pending before this Court are a Petition to Rehear filed

     by Appellant Hooker, Appellees' Motion for Clarification and Appellees' Motion to

     Supplement the Record filed by the Attorney General, Petition on behalf of Holly K.

     Lillard and Jerry L. Smith to Intervene for the Limited Purpose of Responding to

     Appellees' Motion for Clarification, Petition for Rehearing and Motion to Supplement

     the Record filed by appellant Laska, Appellees' Petition to Rehear filed by the Attorney

     General and Motion of Penny J. White to Intervene.




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            The Court has considered these matters and it is ORDERED:

            1.     With the exception of Appellees' Motion for Clarification, all of the

     aforementioned motions and petitions are DENIED.

            2.     In response to Appellees' Motion for Clarification, the equitable relief

     granted in this matter is limited to the case sub judice, involving the election for the

     vacancy on the Supreme Court bench resulting from the resignation of Justice O'Brien,

     which vacancy has been filled in the interim by Justice Penny White. No equitable

     relief granted in this Court's orders of July 5, 8, and 9 shall apply to the intermediate

     appellate court judges, who are not parties to this action, and this Court's order of July

     5, 1996 at page 3, paragraph 3, is clarified and amended by deleting the words "and

     all other similarly situated incumbent appellate judges who have declared their

     candidacy prior to May 16, 1996".

            ENTERED this 10th day of July, 1996.



                                         ________________________________________
                                         WILLIAM H. D. FONES, CHIEF JUSTICE


                                         ________________________________________
                                         MARTHA S. L. BLACK, JUSTICE


                                         _______________________________________
                                         LIN S. HOWARD, JUSTICE


                                         _____________________________________
                                         A. C. WHARTON, JR., JUSTICE


                                         _________________________________
                                         S. MORRIS HADDEN, JUSTICE




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