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TORTS: Kentucky decisions on cause of action for "negligent hiring"; citations provided by two of our readers. Fanatastic assists!

Posted on March 28, 2008
More on my earlier post on cause of action for negligent hiring and a South Carolina decision with comments and citations to a Kentucky decision opening the door to that claim. John Day at Day on Torts Blog posts on a South Carolina decision - South Carolina Opens Door to Negligent Hiring Claim...

LEGISLATURE: Bill to reduce homelessness advances in Senate

Posted on March 28, 2008
Bill to reduce homelessness advances in Senate FROM COURIER JOURNAL A bill aimed at helping people leaving prison or other state facilities avoid becoming homeless is eligible for final passage in the Senate as early as today.

LEGISLATURE: Shock probation legislation won't be heard this session

Posted on March 28, 2008
Shock probation legislation won't be heard this session Herald Leader The effort to end shock probation for drunk drivers who kill in Kentucky has taken a turn for the worse. Victims' families who have been fighting to change the law say their cries are falling on deaf ears in Frankfort.

KY Blawgs: One-sided contracts are a bad deal for ALL parties (or getting greedy will get ya?)

Posted on March 28, 2008
From Bluegrass Business Law Blog is a digest and analysis of recent COA decision. click on heading for entire post at their site: One-sided contracts are a bad deal for ALL parties (or getting greedy will get ya?) The Court of Appeals just released a decision that shows that getting greedy will get ya? in the end...

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UK Law: Trial Advocacy Team Sweeps Regional Tournament

Posted on March 28, 2008
Trial Advocacy Team Sweeps Regional Tournament LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 3, 2008) ? Both teams from the UK College of Law National Trial Team defeated competition from 26 teams to sweep the Seventh Region Trial Advocacy Tournament held Feb. 15 ? 17 at University of Dayton School of Law...

UofL Law: Louisville Law Community Service Day

Posted on March 28, 2008
Louisville Law Community Service Day On April 5, 2008, the law school community will embark upon its first annual day of collective public service. The initiative arose from student input into the university?s strategic planning process. The purpose of this event is to highlight the law school's commitment to community service, provide significant services, have fun, and make new acquaintances in our law school community...

CHASE LAW: Chase Students Win National Adoption Law Moot Court Competition

Posted on March 27, 2008
Mar 19, 2008 - The Chase National Adoption Law Moot Court Team won the third annual Adoption and Child Welfare Law Moot Court Competition, held March 14 and 15, in Columbus, Ohio. Chase entered two teams into the competition and each team won multiple awards, including national champions...

CHASE LAW: Chase Students Win National Employment Law Competition

Posted on March 27, 2008
Mar 10, 2008 - Chase students Benjamin Lewis, Marci Palmieri, and Scott Van Nice, won the Robert F. Wagner Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition, which was held in New York City (March 7-9th, 2008). The competition includes teams from 45 law schools from throughout the United States...

Chase Law: Chase student argues case before Ohio Court of Appeals

Posted on March 27, 2008
Mar 06, 2008 - Joe Mills (3L) argued a case before the Ohio Court of Appeals on Thursday March 6th, 2008. The case Joe argued was ?State of Ohio vs. Anthony McClain? (C070304). Joe, who is supervised by OJPC Attorney Stephen Johnson Grove, represents Anthony McClain...

UofL Law: Jones Shares Experiences at Gould School of Law Lecture

Posted on March 27, 2008
Brandeis School of Law, spoke on "Severe Mental Illness in the Academy: A Law Professor's Story" at the Gould School of Law of the University of Southern California. Pictured in the photo to the left are Professor Jones and Professor Elyn R. Saks, Associate Dean for Research and Orrin B...

JEFFERSON COURTS: Judge rejects probation

Posted on March 27, 2008
Judge rejects probation COURIER JOURNAL A Jefferson Circuit Court judge denied Nathaniel Anderson's request for probation yesterday, telling the former funeral home operator that his burial practices went "against all sense of decency and humanity."

Senate Judiciary Committee Unanmiously Passes Cybersafety Legislation

Posted on March 27, 2008
Senate Judiciary Committee Unanmiously Passes Cybersafety Legislation Attorney General Jack Conway today thanked the Senate Judiciary Committee for unanimously passing House Bill 367, legislation that he drafted, which was sponsored by Rep. Johnny Bell (D-Glasgow), that strengthens Kentucky laws prohibiting internet child predators, cybercrimes and other modern law-enforcement challenges.

House Bill 261 (Expand child support requirements of absent parent)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Rep. Jimmie Lee on January 10, 2008. Passed in the House (98 to 0) on March 12, 2008, to require a person who is obligated to pay child support to pay his or her proportional share of the child's reasonable funeral expenses. http://www.kentuckyvotes...

House Bill 696 (Exception for privacy of motor vehicle accident reports)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Rep. Will Coursey on March 3, 2008. Passed in the House (94 to 1) on March 11, 2008, to allow a limited exemption to the prohibition on commercial distribution of motor vehicle accident reports to allow sharing with entities that collect vehicle accident data to give consumers a means of determining a vehicle's accident history and allow contracting with an entity to provide electronic accident reports to some entities also are eligible to receive them...

Senate Bill 182 (Emergency contact information for drivers)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Sen. Ray S Jones, II on February 25, 2008. Passed in the Senate (38 to 0) on March 5, 2008, to require the circuit clerk to ask drivers license applicants to provide an emergency contact person's name, address, and phone number to be kept in the database of drivers license information...

Senate Bill 62 (Create crime victim address protection program)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Sen. Julie Denton on January 9, 2008. Passed in the Senate (38 to 0) on March 11, 2008, to allow certain crime victims to use as a home address one provided by the Secretary of State rather than the actual physical address. http://www.kentuckyvotes...

House Bill 593 (Allow senior citizens to avoid jury duty)

Posted on March 27, 2008
ntroduced by Rep. Eddie Ballard on February 20, 2008. Passed in the House (85 to 0) on March 7, 2008, to allow anyone age 72 or older to opt out of jury duty. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=268063

PENDING: Senate Bill 241 (Expand lists of eligible jurors)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Sen. Julie Denton on March 5, 2008, to place persons holding state personal identification cards on the master juror list of a county. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=60850

PENDING: House Concurrent Resolution 97 (Provide for additional training for certain attorneys)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Reported in the House on March 5, 2008, favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=58678

PENDING: House Bill 758 (Increase regulation of workers' compensation self-insured groups)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Rep. Tommy Thompson on March 4, 2008, to make various changes to oversight of workers' compensation self-insured groups. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=60757

PENDING: House Bill 733 (No more advertising of delinquent property tax bills)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Rep. Sal Santoro on March 4, 2008, to delete the requirement that sheriffs advertise delinquent property tax bills for sale. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=60732

PENDING: House Bill 727 (Increase regulation of timber industry)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Rep. Leslie Combs on March 4, 2008, to greatly increase regulation of the timber industry in an effort to cut down on theft of timber. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=60726

PENDING: Senate Bill 235 (Set procedure for changing certain subdivision green space)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Sen. Dan Seum on March 4, 2008, to require the permission of at least 75% of the real property owners in a subdivision in a planning unit within the jurisdiction of a consolidated local government to modify the use of a green space, park, golf course, or similar use when it was a part of the original subdivision after all the original residential lots have been sold by the developer...

PENDING: Senate Bill 231 (Require certain reductions in car insurance premiums)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Introduced by Sen. Brett Guthrie on March 4, 2008, to require a reduction in premium rates for automobile liability and physical damage insurance for insureds 55 years of age and older who successfully complete a self-instructed driver safety course meeting standards set by the Transportation Cabinet...

TORTS: Pain and suffering is not marital property, but that portion of a settlement or verdict attibutable to income loss is marital property: Fitzgerald v. Hammock, NPO, 2/8/2008, COA

Posted on March 25, 2008
The Kentucky Court of Appeals rendered a decision (not for publication) in the tort area on 2/8/2008 which you don't see too often. It came within the family law context of a divorce, but it addresses the general rule that a claim before the marriage is not marital property and the pain and suffering component of a claim accruing during the marriage is also not marital property but that portion of the settlement/verdict attributable to income is marital property...

LAWWIRE: Feb. 15, 2008 - KENTUCKY COURT OF APPEALS DECISIONS (2008:08)(COA)

Posted on March 24, 2008
Feb. 15, 2008 - KENTUCKY COURT OF APPEALS DECISIONS (2008:08)(COA) HTML Version of the LawWire - Published and Nonpublished decisions PDF Version of the LawWire COA Argument Calendars SCOKY Argument Calendars Published decisions are digested below with links to full text, but the "not to be published" can be found in the minutes (by name, court, judges, decision, number, county, and LINK to full text) MINUTES from AOC for this week saved at our site and click here for the AOC's Official Minutes [which is provided for backup purposes] 47 rendered decisions Nos...

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Posted on March 24, 2008
Thanks again to Marcia Oddi at the Indiana Law Blog for this link: Law - "1.8 million pages of federal case law online, free of copyright or other restrictions, including all U.S. Supreme Court cases and all federal circuit decisions since 1950" Robert J...

PENDING: House Bill 708 (Update Uniform Commercial Code)

Posted on March 24, 2008
Introduced by Rep. Sannie Overly on March 3, 2008, to make certain technical corrections to the Uniform Commercial Code. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=60649

PENDING: House Bill 685 (Determining paternity)

Posted on March 24, 2008
Introduced by Rep. Darryl Owens on February 28, 2008, to clarify and update statutes relating to paternity determination. http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=60500

PENDING: Senate Bill 203 (Increase regulation of amusement rides and attractions)

Posted on March 24, 2008
Introduced by Sen. Tom Jensen on February 28, 2008, to increase Agriculture Commissioner regulation of amusement rides and attractions relating to requirements of owners to maintain safety standards and perform regular inspections. The bill also sets certain standards for who may operate amusement rides and sets restrictions on the actions of ride operators...

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