Kentucky

CHASE LAW: "Northern Kentucky Law Review Co-Sponsors Symposium: "Lincoln, the Lawyer""

Posted on October 27, 2008
From Chase Law School:Oct 06, 2008 - The Northern Kentucky Law Review of the Chase College of Law and the Kentucky Historical Society co-sponsored a free public symposium titled "Lincoln, the Lawyer," on Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Marriott RiverCenter in Covington, Kentucky...

CRIMINAL CASES: Fayette "Jury acquits man charged in truck-wash slaying"

Posted on October 27, 2008
From Kentucky.com:Jury acquits man charged in truck-wash slaying After deliberating for 14 1/2 hours over two days, a Fayette County jury found Marc Buchanan not guilty on all counts in a 2003 slaying at a Lexington truck stop. Buchanan, 25, who was charged with murder and robbery in the slaying of Carl Gene McClung in August 2003, was to be released from the Fayette County Detention Center Tuesday afternoon...

COURTHOUSES: Herald Leader story follows up on its investigation into Kentucky Courthouse construction with story on failure of Harrison County project to accommodate disabled

Posted on October 26, 2008
Herald Leader highlights problems with disability access to courthouse. We added a picture of the new judicial center to the immediate left showing the wheelchair ramp on the right. The picture was found at the AOC web site.Access to Harrison courthouse limitedDISABLED PEOPLE MUST HAVE GUARD'S ASSISTANCE TO ENTERBy John Chevesjcheves@herald-leader...

CRIMINAL CASES: Jefferson Circuit Judge McKay Chauvin set Dec. 4 for the sentencing of Jared Steen, 20, who has been released on bond.

Posted on October 26, 2008
From community notes in the Courier Journal: A jury yesterday recommended a five-year prison sentence for a Louisville man convicted in a fatal wreck on Crittenden Drive last year. Jefferson Circuit Judge McKay Chauvin set Dec. 4 for the sentencing of Jared Steen, 20, who has been released on bond...

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LAWSUITS FILED: Estate of patient who died in accident while being transported by EMS suit EMS driver and others

Posted on October 26, 2008
From Courier Journal is story on suit filed in Jefferson Circuit Court for fatality. You can click on heading for the entire story on line.Estate of patient who died in crash sues city, EMS driverPartner described worker as 'loopy' By Jason Riley ? jriley@courier-journal...

LOUISVILLE: Law Professor to speak Sunday night at UofL on her schizophrenia and book - free with booksigning and questions afterward

Posted on October 26, 2008
Professor Elyn Saks to speak at University of Louisville tonight (Sunday). Admission is free. Here is story from Courier Journal. Professor Saks is a law professor from Southern California who recently published a book about her lifelong struggle with schizophrenia and the practice of law and teaching...

COURTHOUSE DEDICATION: Hart County Judicial Center - Munfordville - Oct. 30 @ 11:00 am

Posted on October 26, 2008
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The public is invited to a dedication ceremony for the Hart County Judicial Center on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 11 a.m. CDT at 117 E. South St. in Munfordville. ?The Hart County Judicial Center will greatly enhance the security of our court system,? Hart County Judge Executive Terry Martin said...

ETHICS: Diet drug lawyers Gallion and Cunningham permanently disbarred

Posted on October 26, 2008
From Kentucky.com. Links in the post were added by me and go to the KBA opinions referenced in the article.Two fen-phen lawyers disbarred Fen-phen settlement lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Allen Cunningham Jr. have been permanently disbarred from legal practice by the Kentucky Supreme Court...

PUBLIC SERVICE: Spring Forward, Fall Back, and Change all the batteries in your smoke detectors and CO Alarms

Posted on October 25, 2008
My wife is a nurse, and she follows a routine at work, with patients, with me, and at home. Here's one that works. Every year when we move the clocks back one hour, we go through the house and put in new batteries in the alarms, smoke and CO detectors...

UofL Law: "The Cardinal Lawyer: The law faculty's SSRN aggregator page"

Posted on October 25, 2008
I (shamelessly) have copied en toto the following post from University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law "aggregator" for several reasons. Use of a faculty blog RSS accumulator and aggregator is an outstanding cutting edge move to get law school information out...

LAW SCHOOLS: Paducah's law school closing

Posted on October 25, 2008
From Kentucky.com, Kentucky law school in Paducah closing.Troubled Ky. law school to close Barkley School of Law in Paducah will close at the end of the year after officials said they failed to separate it from the financial and legal problems of its predecessor, the American Justice School of Law...

CRIMINAL: SCOKY clears ways for child killer's execution

Posted on October 25, 2008
From Kentucky.com:Top Ky. court clears way for child killer's death The Kentucky Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the execution of a child killer who asked to be put to death so that delays would not "drag out the misery" for himself and his victims' families...

CRIMINAL: SCOKY clears ways for child killer's execution

Posted on October 25, 2008
From Kentucky.com:Top Ky. court clears way for child killer's death The Kentucky Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the execution of a child killer who asked to be put to death so that delays would not "drag out the misery" for himself and his victims' families...

COURTS: Judge Isaacs recuses himself in criminal case involving Bourbon County jailer

Posted on October 25, 2008
From Kentucky.com:Judge recuses himself in Bourbon jailer case Without explanation, Bourbon Circuit Judge Paul Isaacs recused himself Tuesday from the criminal case against the county jailer and a chief deputy.Jailer Tony Horn has been charged with two counts of tampering with public records, a class D felony, and two counts of first-degree official misconduct, a class A misdemeanor...

SETTLEMENTS: Lexington government suit over overtime settles with $2.1 million in attorney fees

Posted on October 25, 2008
City settlement means $2.1 million for lawyers from Kentucky.com Lexington will be paying more than $2.1 million in attorneys fees in the settlement of an overtime pay lawsuit involving more than 300 current and former Fayette County Detention Center corrections officers.

SENATE ELECTION: Tape recorder ruckus too ridiculous for words

Posted on October 24, 2008
Here is a strange story for the books coming out of our Senate campaign between Lunsford and McConnell in a quasi deja' vu moment reminiscent of "Watergate" but more open. A tape recorder belonging to a member of the McConnell campaign may have been hidden at the podium of Lunsford during the debate; "the" recorder ended up in the hands of someone at the Lunsford campaign; the recorder was returned to the McConnell camp minus the debate recording...

TRIAL VIDEOS: Carroll v. Hornung opening/closings posted at TechnoEsq.com

Posted on October 24, 2008
New Trial Video of openings/closings posted at TechnoEsq. New Closing Arguments on TechnoEsq Trial Videos By Finis Price on Litigation We have posted the Closing Arguments for the multi-million dollar case Carroll v. Hornung, et.al. for viewing and download on TechnoEsq Trial Videos...

CRIMINAL NEWS: Court documents provide details of deadly accident

Posted on October 24, 2008
From Courier Journal:Court documents provide details of deadly accident Kenielle Denise Finch who is now facing two counts of murder and 12 other charges in the deaths, has pleaded not guilty and is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on a $385,000 bond.

JUDICIAL ELECTIONS: "Supreme Court candidates speak at Federalist Society

Posted on October 24, 2008
From Courier Journal:Supreme Court candidates speak During a candidate's forum today in downtown Louisville, long-time jurists Lisabeth Hughes Abramson and James Shake both touted their experience and popularity on the bench as qualifications for a seat on the Kentucky Supreme Court.

CRIMINAL: 5-year sentence recommended in fatal crash

Posted on October 24, 2008
From Courier Journal:5-year sentence recommended in fatal crash Jefferson Circuit Judge McKay Chauvin set Dec. 4 for the sentencing of Jared Steen, 20, who has been released on bond.

CRIMINAL CASES: "Ex-U of L dean Felner arraigned fraud, tax charges"

Posted on October 24, 2008
From Courier Journal:Ex-U of L dean Felner arraigned on fraud, tax charges His hands firmly clasped in front of him, former University of Louisville Education Dean Robert Felner offered only a quiet "Yes, sir" and "Yes, madam" during his arraignment yesterday on fraud and tax evasion charges.

CHASE LAW: Constitutional Law Attorney Stephen P. Halbrook Visits Chase

Posted on October 23, 2008
From Chase School of Law: Oct 16, 2008 - The NKU Chase College of Law Federalist Society welcomed Washington D.C.-based attorney Stephen Halbrook. Dr. Halbrook discussed the prominent second amendment case District of Columbia v. Heller, and subsequent second Amendment litigation...

NEWS: "Curlin ownership stake may be auctioned"

Posted on October 22, 2008
Story in Courier Journal by Andrew Wolfson: Curlin ownership stake may be auctioned20% owned by diet-drug lawyers The 20 percent stake in the race horse Curlin owned by lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. may soon be on the auction block...

UK LAW: "Professor Lawson examines Kentucky?s persistent felony offender (PFO) law in The Kentucky Law Journal."

Posted on October 21, 2008
From UK Law:Robert G. Lawson, Charles S. Cassis Professor of Law in the University of Kentucky College of Law, has an article in the most recent edition of the Kentucky Law Journal. The article, titled " PFO Law Reform, A Crucial First Step Toward Sentencing Sanity in Kentucky," examines the prison system in Kentucky and need for reform...

JEFFERSON COUNTY: Jefferson Circuit Clerk Nicholson Announces Centralized Domestic Violence Intake Center

Posted on October 21, 2008
From the Courier-Journal:Victims' services in single officeOne-stop shop offers legal assistance By Jessie Halladay ? jhalladay@courier-journal.com ? October 17, 2008 For years, a grass-roots effort has been under way to create a one-stop place for domestic violence victims to seek help from the legal system...

FAMILY COURTS: "Wife's protection order bars principal from school"

Posted on October 21, 2008
From the Courier-Journal (but brought to my attention via The Kentucky School News and Commentary Blog):Wife's protection order bars principal from school By Jason Riley ? jriley@courier-journal.com ? October 17, 2008 The estranged wife of Pleasure Ridge Park High School principal David Johnson has taken out an emergency protection order against him that bars him from the school, claiming Johnson hit his teenage son in the face on Sunday...

SCOKY: Justice McAnulty's Portraid dedicated

Posted on October 21, 2008
McAnulty portrait dedicated at Supreme Court:McAnulty portrait dedicated - First black justice honored By Stephenie Steitzer October 16, 2008 FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky Supreme Court yesterday dedicated a portrait of Justice William McAnulty Jr., who died in August 2007 of brain cancer...

JUDICIAL ELECTIONS: CJ Candidate Bios for Jefferson County Races for 2008

Posted on October 20, 2008
To help you decide on the candidates in this years general election for the other judicial races in Jefferson County, I am providing links to their on-line bios. Remember this is just a short-hand summary of each and not a substitute for going to their web sites (available in their bio) and/or even asking your lawyer friends who may know and have their own personal recommendations to add: Kentucky Circuit Court Judge Circuit 30, Division 4Cunningham and Kemper Kentucky District Court Judge District 30, Division 2Smith and Vandertoll Kentucky District Court Judge District 30, Division 8 Bowles, Watkins, Parks, and Shouse Kentucky District Court Judge District 30, Division 16Holton and King In addition, here is the Supreme Court race bio's as well: Kentucky Supreme Court Justice District 4 Abramson & Shake

JUDICIAL ELECTIONS: 2008 Supreme Court Justice Race - Candidate Interview by Courier Journal of Abramson and Shake

Posted on October 20, 2008
Election video interview Supreme Court candidates - Abramson and Shake - Supreme Court of Kentucky 2008 Election. To see a candidate bio comparison at the Courier Journal, click here.

ELECTIONS: Link provided by Courier Journal to find out WHO'S ON YOUR BALLOT in '08!

Posted on October 20, 2008
Jefferson County has a voter connection page to allow you to look and she who will be on Your Ballot! Thanks to the Courier Journal for "clueing" me in on this link at its election page "Decision 2008":Sample ballot (Enter your address and select "Search," then look for "General election sample ballots"...

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