Kentucky

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Posted on October 13, 2008
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Professor Barry Eichengreen says strong action should be taken to stop the financial crisis from getting worse.

Posted on October 10, 2008
Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California,  BERKELEY, California (CNN) — Every time the economy and stock market turn down, financial historians get predictable calls from reporters...

Those who know ?Beau? Bolus of the Haddad Law Office in Louisville are not surprised he scored a $9.89 million dollar Med Mal verdict in Fayette County

Posted on October 10, 2008
  A large medical malpractice verdict is increasingly a rare thing to witness.  Juries often demonstrate their bias against lawsuits by being parsimonious in writing checks to plaintiffs.   Occasionally however, a case with merit is presented by an attorney who has done his home work, and is able to get past the lawsuit prejudice of the [...

Don McNay on: Machiavelli and the current Economic Crisis

Posted on October 10, 2008
Come on baby, don?t fear the reaper.   -Blue Oyster Cult    I wish one of our economic leaders had been a political science major.  George Bush has an MBA from Harvard.  Henry Paulson has an MBA from Harvard. Ben Bernanke graduated from Harvard before became he became a Princeton professor...

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Chief Justice Minton announces improvements to judicial center program

Posted on October 10, 2008
Oct 10, 2008 Frankfort, Ky. — Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr. discussed improvements to the Administrative Office of the Courts judicial center construction program at the Friday, Oct. 3, meeting of the Court Facilities Standards Committee in Frankfort...

Two important Ky. criminal cases just released?dui and prosecutorial misconduct

Posted on October 10, 2008
Every week lawreader publishes a synopsis of every ky. appellate case.  only subscribers may access this valuable material….members can read more about these two important criminal cases just released…..  Oct. 10- important Cases  on Lawreader:  No...

In oral arguments U.S. Sup. Court sympathetic to worker?s discrimination retaliation claims

Posted on October 09, 2008
  By MARK SHERMAN ? 1 day ago  WASHINGTON (AP) ? Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they would side with a longtime government worker who claims she was fired in retaliation after she cooperated with a sexual harassment investigation.  The court wrestled with whether the anti-retaliation provisions of a landmark civil rights law apply to people who haven’t [...

Fayette County, usually a dead zone for Medical Malpractice verdicts, awards $9.89 million due to surgery that went bad

Posted on October 09, 2008
This article was published on Herald-Leader.com By Brandon Ortiz A $9.89 million civil verdict was returned Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by a Lexington hairdresser who became paraplegic after a routine heart surgery. A Fayette Circuit Court jury assigned 31 percent of fault ? or $3,057,894...

Ga. Supreme Court backs vaccine suit in autism case

Posted on October 08, 2008
Ga. Supreme Court Backs Vaccine Suit in Autism Case    Conflicting with courts around the U.S., state Supreme Court says Congress didn’t intend to ‘pre-empt all design defect claims’   R. Robin McDonald Fulton County Daily Report October 7, 2008      The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday upheld a state appeals court ruling that could open the door to product [...

Geoprgia Supreme Court Backs Vaccine Suit in Autism Case

Posted on October 08, 2008
  Conflicting with courts around the U.S., state Supreme Court says Congress didn’t intend to ‘pre-empt all design defect claims’   R. Robin McDonald Fulton County Daily Report October 7, 2008    The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday upheld a state appeals court ruling that could open the door to product liability claims against vaccine manufacturers by the parents [...

Ky. State Government?s E-Transparency Web Site Goes Online

Posted on October 08, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008   Public asked for their input on ?Kentucky?s Open Door? test site FRANKFORT, Ky. ?  A mockup of Kentucky?s first e-Transparency Web site is now online and members of the public are being asked to make comments on its design...

Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments in Murry on Oct. 14th. - see docket

Posted on October 08, 2008
  FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in two cases Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Calloway County Judicial Building in Murray. Proceedings will be open to the public.   A three-judge panel consisting of Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sara Walter Combs and Court of Appeals Judges Donna L...

U.S. Sup. Ct. to hear arguments on erisa beneficiary designation

Posted on October 08, 2008
Mary Alice Robbins Texas Lawyer  October 6, 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday regarding whether a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act trumps a woman’s voluntary waiver of her ex-husband’s pension benefits, an issue that has divided federal appeals courts and left divorce lawyers unsure how to [...

Don McNay, Kentucky Financial Counselor comments on what you can do to protect your investments during this crisis

Posted on October 08, 2008
don@donmcnay.com                                                                     “You know you make me want to shout”   -Otis Day and the Knights   I feel like Kevin Bacon’s character in the movie Animal House.    In the last scene of the movie, Bacon [...

More Reasons why Chase Law School should change its name to Abraham Lincoln Law School

Posted on October 05, 2008
Editorial by LawReader Senior Editor Stan Billingsley    Oct. 5, 2008  “Salmon Chase (April 17, 1741 ? June 19, 1811), was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and earlier was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland...

SPORTS LAW PROFESSOR ANSWERS FIVE KEY QUESTIONS ABOUT O.J. SIMPSON GUILTY VERDICT

Posted on October 05, 2008
   SI.com legal analyst Michael McCann answers the key questions following the guilty verdict of O.J. Simpson on all 12 counts of armed robbery and kidnapping.  Michael McCann is a visiting law professor at Boston College Law School, a law professor at Vermont Law School and the distinguished visiting Hall of Fame Professor of Law at Mississippi [...

Speaker Jody Richards Blasts Williams? Defense of Big Pay Hike For LRC

Posted on October 04, 2008
7:04 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink  Mark Hebert House Speaker Jody Richards doesn’t pull any punches in lambasting Senate President David Williams for defending the LRC’s $62,000 pay hike for LRC Director Bobby Sherman. (The following quote is from an article posted by WHAS TV reporter Mark Hebert) Here’s Richards’ letter: As a skilled trial lawyer, [...

Chief Justice Minton to discuss judicial center construction program Oct. 3 at Court Facilities Standards Committee meeting

Posted on October 02, 2008
     FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 2, 2008 - Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr. will discuss the Administrative Office of the Courts judicial center construction program at the Friday, Oct. 3, meeting of the Court Facilities Standards Committee (CFSC)...

Attorney General Conway Sues to Stop State?s Inmate Early Release Program

Posted on October 02, 2008
Oct. 2, 2008   Attorney General Jack Conway today filed suit in Franklin Circuit Court against the Kentucky Department of Corrections to block the agency from continuing to release prisoners, some of whom are dangerous felons, pursuant to its early release program...

U.S. Supreme Court October term begins Monday, see pending cases?.

Posted on October 02, 2008
    By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer   The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (Oct. 6) begins a new term that so far lacks the controversy of last term?s politically explosive cases on gun control, the death penalty and voter-identification laws, but that still is grabbing the attention of states...

Can a judge create his own independent Drug Court? Controversy rages in Pike County.

Posted on October 02, 2008
  The following news stories were published this week in the Appalachian News Express, which titles itself ?The Conscience of Eastern Kentucky?.   Judge?s program under scrutiny   By Russ Cassady, Staff Writer Appalachian News Express ? Pikeville, Ky...

U.S. Attorney, James Zerhusen advocates government?s ?Deceit, deception, lying??

Posted on October 02, 2008
  Oct. 2, 2008   The U.S. Attorney for Eastern Kentucky, James Zerhusen submitted a brief in the prosecution of road contractor Leonard Lawson and former state Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert, in which he argued in favor of ?deceit, deception and lying? in dealing with defendants...

Voter Information Resources

Posted on October 01, 2008
  The State Board of Elections has provided you, the voter, with several resources that are extremely helpful.Information on requesting an Absentee Ballot.Information for holding a Voter Registration Drive.Information for Military and Overseas Citizens...

Remember the Great Depression? It is interesting to review what happened then to understand what can happen today.

Posted on September 30, 2008
 By Stan Billingsley  LawReader Senior Editor                Sept. 30, 2008 The following economic tutorial shows that in the run up to the Great Depression of the 1930?s  we had many of the same conditions we are seeing now in our economy. The number one issue then was loss of liquidity in the credit markets...

Congress considers allowing Supreme Court Appeals to members of U.S. Military Convicted of Crimes

Posted on September 30, 2008
by Dan Slater   September 30, 2008 Wall St. Journal blog Under what circumstances should military members who?ve been convicted of crimes be allowed to file cert petitions with the Supreme Court? That issue ? largely upstaged by the congressional vagaries on a certain bailout bill ? is now going to the Senate, reports the NLJ...

House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205

Posted on September 29, 2008
In a moment of historic drama in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.    Attempts are being discussed to attempt another vote likely to come early next week.

October term of U.S. Supreme Court term set to begin

Posted on September 29, 2008
Court may hear cases on federal preemption of local zoning laws, employment discrimination, search and seizure and sentencing   KIMBERLY ATKINS  Lawyers USA   September 29, 2008   WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Supreme Court could decide Monday whether it will hear Baltimore County?s appeal of a lower court ruling that the county violated the federal Natural Gas Act by banning [...

Are you familiar with the legal term EJUSDEM GENERIS?this may be useful someday.

Posted on September 28, 2008
 There are hundreds of legal terms defined and discussed in LawReaders DOCTRINES & RULES   LawReader subscribers can find this resource on the left hand column of the home page.   One of the rules discussed is Ejusdem Generis: Gries v. Louisville-Jefferson County Metropolitan Government, No...

Bailout bill advances - See current draft

Posted on September 28, 2008
The federal government would provide as much as $700 billion in a far-reaching plan to rescue the nation’s troubled financial system, according to a bill posted online by Democratic lawmakers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she hopes the House will take up the bill on Monday...

Police charge flatulent DUI suspect for Battery for passing gas and fanning it towards a policeman.

Posted on September 27, 2008
  We don?t make this stuff up?..   CHARLESTON, West Virginia  -(AP) - A West Virginia man accused of passing gas and fanning it toward a police officer no longer faces a battery charge.   The Kanawha County prosecutor’s office requested that the charge be dropped against 34-year-old Jose Cruz...

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