Kentucky

Vacancy for Administrative Law Judge for Worker?s Compensation ? Salary equals that of a Circuit Judge.

Posted on June 11, 2008
This notice was sent out by the Ky. Office of Worker?s Claims.   The nominee must be approved by the Kentucky State Senate.Administrative Law Judge  - Kentucky Office of Workers Claims The Workers Compensation Nominating Commission is now accepting resumes for a position as Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for the Kentucky Office of Workers Claims...

Reduced Okla. Supreme Court Caseload Attributed to Reforms, Mediation - Ky. could learn from this example

Posted on June 10, 2008
June 10, 2008  Legislative reforms and mediated lawsuits are responsible for a decline in the number of appeals and court actions handled by the Oklahoma Supreme Court over the past few years.  The Tulsa World examined eight years of Supreme Court filings, opinions and settlement conferences from records obtained through the Open Records Act...

CANADA CREATES INNOVATIVE TRAINING PROGRAM TO PREPARE LITIGANTS FOR APPELLATE ORAL ARGUMENTS

Posted on June 10, 2008
  SIMULATING THE TOP COURT: ADVOCACY INSTITUTE   Preparing to face the Supreme Court like a pro   Dress rehearsals, complete with testy exchanges, help lawyers find vulnerable spots in their cases - before the judges do   KIRK MAKIN -  JUSTICE REPORTER June 10, 2008 After a sleepless night spent rehearsing his legal submissions in front of a hotel room mirror, lawyer David [...

Supreme Court rules in Federal False Claims Act and RICO cases

Posted on June 09, 2008
June 8, 2008   [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] handed down four decisions Monday, including Allison Engine v. United States [JURIST report], where the Court ruled that the Federal False Claims Act [31 USC 3729 text] is not limited to claims of misspent funds submitted to a federal government agency, but also [...

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Court sets limits in government fraud suits

Posted on June 09, 2008
  June 8, 2008   WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a whistleblower law intended to expose fraud can be applied to subcontractors and other indirect recipients of federal funds.  The case before the court involved alleged contract fraud by a former unit of General Motors Corp...

U.S. Sup. Ct. gives new life to the Doctrine of Patent Exhaustion

Posted on June 09, 2008
Jun 09, 2008 Supreme Court Decides Quanta v. LG Electronics, __ U.S. __ (2008), Quanta v. LG Electronics, __ U.S. __ (2008)  Justice Thomas delivered the Supreme Court?s 19?page unanimous decision that provides some new life to the doctrine of patent exhaustion...

Va. high court allows visitation rights to both lesbian parents.

Posted on June 08, 2008
Federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act regarding custody disputes apply to same-sex couples as well as traditional marriages.    The FPKP says: ?28 USCS § 1738A (2004) - § 1738A. Full faith and credit given to child custody determinations (a) The appropriate authorities of every State shall enforce according to its terms, and shall not modify except as provided [...

The Kentucky FOLKS RULE ?

Posted on June 08, 2008
Do you know about the Folks Rule?   LawReader users can find this rule and many others in our DOCTRINES & RULES feature.  LawReader makes legal research a breeze. The FOLKS RULE for statutory construction.  We would suggest that it also be applied to pleadings and jury instructions...

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Posted on June 06, 2008
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State Supreme Court sets precedent to allow suppression of evidence as remedy for statutory violation

Posted on June 06, 2008
  June 6, 2008  Wisconsin Law Journal  What the court heldCase: State of Wisconsin v. Popenhagen, No. 2006AP1114-CR. Issue: Is suppression a proper remedy for the state?s violation of sec. 968.135 in obtaining the defendant’s bank records? Holding: Yes...

Justice Sandra Day O?Connor Makes Foray Into Online Project to familiarize students with the legal system.

Posted on June 06, 2008
by Dan Slater Wall Street Journal  June 6, 2008 Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O?Connor is a gamer. Who knew? A Loyal LB?er alerted us to a report on Wired magazine?s Game Life blog. On Wednesday, according to the blog, SDO delivered the keynote address at the the annual Games For Change conference, which was [...

why U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Gov. definition of money laundering was too broad

Posted on June 06, 2008
Tech law school graduate wins Supreme Court case By Logan G. Carver  AVALANCHE-JOURNAL   Friday, June 06, 2008 Jerry V. Beard picked up his telephone to hear the U.S. Supreme Court was on the line for him. A few seconds later he learned he had won his case in a unanimous decision by the highest court in the land...

IMPORTANT SURVIVAL TIPS FOR TORNADOS AND HURRICAINES

Posted on June 05, 2008
Tasha Scott of Independence, KY. sent us the following article:  With the storm/tornado we had last night I thought this might be helpful in a tornado as well. Scary.   EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP’S ARTICLE ON THE “TRIANGLE OF LIFE”    My name is Doug Copp...

Mexico sues U.S. in World Court to stay executions of Mexican citizens

Posted on June 05, 2008
By ARTHUR MAX ? June 5, 2008  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) ? Mexico appealed to the U.N.’s highest court Thursday to block the executions of Mexicans in the United States, arguing U.S. officials have failed to comply with a judgment ordering a review of their trials...

U.S. Sup. Court rules for defendants on money laundering

Posted on June 05, 2008
 By PETE YOST ? June 3, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal prosecutors have gone too far in their use of money laundering charges to combat drug traffickers and organized crime. In two decisions ? one a 5-4 split, the other unanimous ? the justices found that money laundering charges apply only [...

Bill Billingsley reports on Patron Saint of Lawyers - Judges should take note.

Posted on June 05, 2008
LawReader stringer ?Bill? Billingsley, former NASA scientist, now owner of Billingsley Aerospace, last wrote to us from Pakistan.  This month he is in Ireland.  He sent us a picture of a plaque he found on a wall in Tralee, Ireland.  We have written out the words on the plaque regarding the Patron Saint of lawyers, [...

AN IMPORTANT WIN FOR FATHERS, CHILDREN IN NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT

Posted on June 05, 2008
June 4th, 2008  by Glenn Sacks in Nebraska News  We?ve often discussed anti-father bias in Child Protective Services cases. Fathers are frequently marginalized and deprived of custody of their children when their wives/ex-wives/ex-girlfriends abuse their children...

How Our Sexuality Is Being Restricted One Bad Law at a Time

Posted on June 04, 2008
 By Dr. Marty Klein, AlterNet. June 4, 2008. Sexuality is considered a public health menace, and many people want tough (albeit illegal) laws to battle the epidemic. With anxiety and anger about sexuality reaching a noisy crescendo, Congress members and state legislators are responding with laws that placate the mob du jour — laws restricting sexual [...

Cincinnati Whistleblower Blog Sums up Fen Phen Testimony

Posted on June 01, 2008
Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo says Greedy Hearse Chasing Attorney $tan Che$ley is taking a real beating in the highly-publicized criminal ?Fen Phen? case in US District Court in Covington.   The three attorneys accused of bilking their class action clients have blamed $tan as the reason they mistakenly took an extra $100 million dollars out of [...

User asks why we have deactivated our comments tool on the LawReader blog?

Posted on May 31, 2008
Thank you for your question about the comments tool being closed on the LawReader blog. We previously had this feature activated, but it was continuously spammed by ads and other trash mail. The software available to us does not permit us to limit the access to the comments section to valid users...

The parties in Fen Phen Trial

Posted on May 31, 2008
 Joseph “Jay” Bamberger: The judge Joseph “Jay” Bamberger, 65 The Covington native was the only circuit judge in Boone and Gallatin counties for 12 years, during which time he presided over the $200 million fen-phen settlement...

Witness told to destroy Fen Phen records - Mills hospitalized

Posted on May 31, 2008
Witness says she was told to destroy fen-phen documents    By Andrew Wolfson Louisville Courier-Journal May 30, 2008  One of the three lawyers charged with plundering Kentucky?s $200 million fen-phen settlement told a legal assistant to destroy documents showing how the clients were paid, according to the aide?s testimony today...

Fen Phen Trial Update May 30 - May 31

Posted on May 31, 2008
       Key Diet Drug Witness Expected - Informat taped accused lawyers By Andrew Wolfson  Louisville Courier-Journal  May 30, 2008 The government is expected to present what could be its star witness today in the federal fraud trial of three lawyers accused of plundering Kentucky’s $200million fen-phen settlement...

PLANS TO USE COAL IN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MANNER HAS SET BACK AS COSTS RISE

Posted on May 30, 2008
By MATTHEW L. WALD  New York Times May 30, 2008 WASHINGTON ? For years, scientists have had a straightforward idea for taming global warming. They want to take the carbon dioxide that spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground...

Judge Steve Horner Traveling in Canada Gets Different Take on the reasons behind the War of 1812.

Posted on May 30, 2008
  Montreal ? May 31, 2008   We are taught, of course, that the Brits - unhappy about losing their  American colonies 35 years earlier -  were trying to strangle them  economically by shutting down their trade, and thus we were again the innocent victim...

Not All Prosecutors Sympathetic to Public Advocate Plans to Curtail Services

Posted on May 29, 2008
May 29, 2008  (The following opinions are those of some prosecutors, and they do not necessarily express an opinion by LawReader.  We welcome informational reports from all parties to this or other legal issues.)  LawReader received the following comment from a County Attorney who quotes other prosecutors...

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Posted on May 29, 2008
LawReader can save you a bundle.  Isn?t it about time you made a change to LawReader?   For Westlaw or Lexis and the Ky. Digest you will have to pay about  $5343* (and that only begins the bleeding of cash).   LawReader charges only $377.50 a year (or $34...

Gov. Beshear Proposes Special Session for June 23rd. for Pension Reform Measures

Posted on May 29, 2008
May 29, 2008     Will Save $500 Million Annually in Pension Costs and at Least $50 Million in Immediate Savings to City and County Governments and School Districts -  Creates Working Group to Address Remaining Issues   FRANKFORT, Ky. ?Gov. Steve Beshear today called on legislators to agree on major pension reform issues in the next three weeks which [...

Gov. Beshear issues Executive Order on Ethics to fulfill campaign pledge

Posted on May 27, 2008
May 27, 2008 Executive Order Carries Out Campaign Pledge to Bring Integrity to Frankfort FRANKFORT, KY ? Despite the lack of action by the Kentucky General Assembly on proposed Ethics Reform legislation during the 2008 General Assembly, Gov. Steve Beshear today signed an Executive Order to strengthen the ethics policies governing the executive branch of state government...

Governor Beshear Signs Order on Executive Branch Ethics

Posted on May 27, 2008
May 27, 2008 Executive Order Carries Out Campaign Pledge to Bring Integrity to Frankfort FRANKFORT, KY ? Despite the lack of action by the Kentucky General Assembly on proposed Ethics Reform legislation during the 2008 General Assembly, Gov. Steve Beshear today signed an Executive Order to strengthen the ethics policies governing the executive branch of state government...

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