Kentucky

INSURANCE: Attorney Brad Smith New CEO of KFBM

Posted on April 01, 2009
Smith takes over as CEO of Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Bradley R. Smith, chief operating officer Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Cos. has succeeded Roger L. Simpson as CEO, the insurer announced.

COURTS: Officer Absent, District Court Prosecutions and a hard-hitting letter to the editor

Posted on March 31, 2009
The recent stories by the Courier Journal on Officer Absent has prompted the following letter to the editor. It has been several weeks, with no real substantive developments on solving the problem of district court dismissals for failure of police officers to show up as witnesses...

COURTS: Officer Absent, District Court Prosecutions and a hard-hitting letter to the editor

Posted on March 31, 2009
The recent stories by the Courier Journal on Officer Absent has prompted the following letter to the editor. It has been several weeks, with no real substantive developments on solving the problem of district court dismissals for failure of police officers to show up as witnesses...

CIVIL RULE AMENDMENTS: New Rule to Protect Privacy in Pleadings and other Court Filings of Documents

Posted on March 30, 2009
Civil Rule 7.03 is new, new, new. In a nutshell: Attorney shall redact SSN, DOB, TIN, financial account number in civil matters (DOB ok in criminal pleadings) from those documents FILED WITH THE COURT. Attorney is the custodian of the original. Court may order unredacted filed under seal...

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New News: US Justice Watch On Line Paper in S.Central KY reporting on local legal news

Posted on March 30, 2009
I just discovered this interesting blog out of southcentral Kentucky. US Justice Watch does not have that many stories yet, nor do they have an RSS feed, but they seem to be putting out a lot of stories on the Judge Maricle case. Here are a few links of recent stories: Bond Denied Again in Judge Maricles Criminal Indictment United States Magistrate Judge Robert E...

CIVIL RULES: Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure Amended Effective Apr. 1, 2009

Posted on March 30, 2009
Recent changes to the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure are to take effect on April 1, 2009. Thanks to David Kramer, here is a short summary of the changes and a link to SCOKY Orders. Attached is an Order of the Kentucky Supreme Court amending the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure effective 4/1/09...

CIVIL RULES: Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure Amended Effective Apr. 1, 2009

Posted on March 30, 2009
Recent changes to the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure are to take effect on April 1, 2009. Thanks to David Kramer, here is a short summary of the changes and a link to SCOKY Orders. Attached is an Order of the Kentucky Supreme Court amending the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure effective 4/1/09...

STATE: Unemployment Insurance Task Force Appointed AFTER State Loses $45 million in fed money (or now you lose it, now you don't)

Posted on March 29, 2009
Where were these folks and this task force as the state was losing federal stimulus money for unemployment funds??? Looks like the door was closed after the horse got out of the barn on this one. See, Courier Journal story - Ky. will miss out on $45 million for jobless benefits Fri Mar 27, 2009...

AOC News: Chief Justice Minton releases legal opinion on bonding required for Kentucky court facilities construction program

Posted on March 25, 2009
The 'in house' review of the bonding program for courthouse construction is complete and CJ Minton has opined it was inadequate. Of course, this was exposed by the Herald Leader and only addresses one of the concerns raised by their special edition. See more at Law and Mortar...

More on federal indictment of Senior Status Judge Cletus Maricle

Posted on March 21, 2009
Lawreader has posted the text of the indictment. Click here. From Bluegrass Politics Blogger, John Stamper: Judge arraigns 4 of 8 charged in Clay Co. corruption case Our earlier post: JUDICIARY: Senior Status Judge Cletus Maricle Indicted for racketeering

JUDICIARY: Jefferson County Commission on Racial Fairness passes resolution that Gov, CJ Minton, "seek out" qualified minorities for appointment to judiciary

Posted on March 20, 2009
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Jefferson County Commission on Racial Fairness has unanimously passed a resolution that calls for the Judicial Nominating Commission, Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr. and Gov. Steve Beshear to seek out, nominate and appoint qualified African-Americans and other minorities to the Kentucky judiciary...

JUCICIARY: Governor and Chief Justice Agree to Postpone Making Judicial Appointments until later in year

Posted on March 20, 2009
List of Judicial Vacancies The four names in blue are vacancies due to election; the 23 other vacancies are due to retiring judges who took senior status. The vacancies are listed, from top to bottom, in the order in which they will be filled. The determination on which vacancies to fill first was based on several factors, including the jurisdiction's caseload, the number of other judges in that jurisdiction and the level of coverage by senior judges for that jurisdiction...

UofL: Call for papers for Second Annual Conference on Innovation and Communication Law

Posted on March 20, 2009
From UofL Law: Call for Papers By vmsmit06 on Faculty Second Annual Conference on Innovation and Communication Law Louisville, KY USA August 21 and 22, 2009 The University of Louisville will host the second annual Conference on Innovation and Communication Law on August 21 and 22, 2009...

Laws: HB 28 regarding father's rights does not make it this session; sponsor says it's "dead"

Posted on March 19, 2009
Paternal rights bill dead for session [Courier Journal story by Andrew Wolfson] Shane Benton hasn't seen his son since August, he said, because of a ruling four months earlier in which the Kentucky Supreme Court held that a man who fathers a child during an affair with a married woman has no parental rights...

JUDICIARY: Open Records Procedures Proposed for Judiciary

Posted on March 19, 2009
Here's story from Andrew Wolfson, Courier Journal, regarding proposal to institute open records procedures in the judiciary (even though SC decision years ago held Kentucky Open Records statute did not apply to the courts). Will it include the AOC, financial matters, court house construction, salaries, etc? Proposal would open judicial branch's records Council to help draft proposal this year By Andrew Wolfson ? awolfson@courier-journal...

Criminal News: Attorney?s illness causes concern, delays in fen-phen case

Posted on March 19, 2009
Attorney?s illness causes concern, delays in fen-phen case By H-L Justice Team on William Gallion

JUDICIARY: Senior Status Judge Cletus Maricle Indicted for racketeering

Posted on March 19, 2009
Senior Status Judge Cletus Maricle indicted by feds for Clay County racketeering. Here's post at Bluegrass Politics Blog with Herald-Leader. Several Clay County officials indicted on vote-buying charges By John Stamper on State Government Several prominent officials in Clay County schemed to buy votes in the May 2004 primary election, a federal grand jury has charged...

LBA: Racial Fairness Commission Meeting - Wednesday, March 18 @ 4:00 p.m.

Posted on March 18, 2009
The public is invited to attend a meeting of the Chief Justice Racial Fairness Commission in the Crown Room of the Jefferson County Judicial Center (700 W. Jefferson St.). The Commission is chaired by Court of Appeals Judge Denise Clayton.

AOC News: Foster Care Needed in Bracken, Fleming, Lewis, Mason, Robertson, Kenton and Grayson Counties

Posted on March 18, 2009
The following releases from the AOC: Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Bracken, Fleming, Lewis, Mason and Robertson counties Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Grayson County Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Kenton County These announcements provide a contrast with previous stories over SB 68 regarding adoption and foster care and the financial implications of the proposed legislation which did not get approved: Adoption, foster-care bill is dead for session UCLA?S WILLIAMS INSTITUTE RELEASES NEW STUDY ESTIMATING COSTS OF KENTUCKY SB 68: BARRING UNMARRIED COUPLES FROM FOSTERING AND ADOPTING WILL DISPLACE OVER 700 CHILDREN; COST STATE $5...

JUDICIAL POLITICS: More on the King Campaign Finances and a little segue into investigatory journalism and blogging

Posted on March 18, 2009
This post bounces around a little - a little about local bloggers breaking stories which prompted my earlier post entitled OP-ED: Letter to the editor in CJ supportive of Judge Katie King and which generated the following comment from Ed Springston who blogs at Louisville News and Politics and who has investigated the Katie King campaign issues...

UofL News: Nursing student sues school over dismissal based upon her blog postings

Posted on March 17, 2009
Here are stories filed on the UofL nursing student Nina Yoder's lawsuit in federal court claiming she was dismissed due to content on her blog. The story was scooped at PageOne Blog on March 5, then followed up with the links to pleadings on March 12, and now the AP is carrying the story...

KBA: Vacancy Announcement for EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ? TREASURER POSITION; Application deadline is April 15, 2009

Posted on March 16, 2009
The Kentucky Bar Association (KBA), an agency of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, seeks qualified applicants for the position of Executive Director - Treasurer. The KBA, with nearly 16,000 members, is a unified state bar association with offices in the state capital of Frankfort...

LBA CLE: Strategies for Doing Business with a Financially Troubled Company

Posted on March 16, 2009
When: Thursday, March 19, 2009 @ 11 a.m. ? 1 p.m. Join the LBA In-House Counsel Section and Dennis D. Murrell of Middleton Reutlinger for a discussion on doing business with a financially troubled company. Topics include: * Contract Renegotiation * Security Interests * Personal Guarantees * Anticipatory Breach * Adequate Assurance of Performance * Preferential Transfers For more information, visit the LBA website or contact the CLE Department by calling (502) 583-5314 or e-mail lmaddox@loubar...

State News: Pension Plan Changes for New Hires Being Considered by Legislature

Posted on March 15, 2009
While reading the following post from Bluegrass Politics Blog and the state's pension program's problems from declining stocks, I was wondering about the financial integrity of the judicial pension program which is probably getting it with a one-two punch of declining stock values AND staggeringly increasing commitments created by the flood of senior status judges...

Weekly News Wrap-up: Mar. 9-15, 2009

Posted on March 15, 2009

UofL Law: Law Review announces 2009-2010 Editorial Board

Posted on March 15, 2009
UofL Law Review Announces 2009-2010 Editorial Board The University of Louisville Law Review is pleased to announce next year's editorial board: Editor in Chief: Michael Swansburg Senior Articles Editor: Leah Campbell Senior Notes Editor: Adam Stotts Symposium & Alumni Relations Editor: Mari-Elise Gates Executive Editor: David Haney Managing Editor: Andrew Palmer Articles Editors: Chad Propst, Jessica Richards, Ian Richetti Notes Editors: Barry Dunn, Jenna Glasscock Johnston, Trista Moss Associate Editor-Bluebook/ILL: Brian Pollock Associate Editor-Symposium: Brian Stempien

LAWS: Bill to give money to prosecutors, public defenders clears House

Posted on March 14, 2009
From Bluegrass Politics Blog, Beth Musgrave: Bill to give money to prosecutors, public defenders clears House By Beth Musgrave on State Government FRANKFORT ? A bill that would give $4.7 million to the state?s public defenders and an additional $4.7 million to the state?s prosecutors this fiscal year passed the House Tuesday, but not without a more than an hour-long debate...

AOC News: AOC Director Jason Nemes Resigns, Taking Position with Landrum and Shouse

Posted on March 13, 2009
Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts resigns Jason M. Nemes leaving the AOC to join Dinsmore & Shohl Resignation to be effective April 3, 2009 FRANKFORT, Ky., March 12, 2009 -- Jason M. Nemes announced today that he is leaving his post as director of the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts to practice law with Dinsmore & Shohl in Louisville...

BULLITT NEWS: Former inmate sues ex-deputy, sheriff in Bullitt

Posted on March 13, 2009
Former inmate sues ex-deputy, sheriff in Bullitt A former inmate at the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women is suing a former Bullitt County deputy and the sheriff after alleging last year that the deputy sexually assaulted her during trips to court...

OP-ED: Letter to the editor in CJ supportive of Judge Katie King

Posted on March 11, 2009
Today, I am sharing a letter to the editor from the Courier Journal in support of Judge Katie King. The letter was written by Steven Magre, former President of the Louisville Board of Alderman, and sets out two points that seem to have been overlooked by bloggers and media in coming down on Judge King...

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