Kentucky

LAWREADER - RIC DETERS WILL NOT APPEAL SANCTIONS OF FEDERAL JUDGE by Stan
ERIC DETERS WILL NOT APPEAL SANCTIONS OF FEDERAL JUDGE Some more recent postings by Stan Billingsly at Lawreader: FEN PHEN LAWYER WILLIAM GALLION SAYS ANGELA FORD SEIZED HIS LAPTOP WITH CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH HIS ATTORNEY, IN VIOLATION OF ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE KBA BAR COUNSEL CAN EFFECTIVELY DENY RIGHT TO APPEAL IN ATTORNEY DISCIPLINE CASES ? This is happening right now...

Character & Fitness in Action
Sometime in the mid-1970s, the deans of New York law schools were summoned to a meeting with the leadership of the N.Y. Character and Fitness Committee. The agenda was a proposal to enhance the exclusionary powers of the committee...

More Than 60 Days
The Maryland Court of Appeals has ordered the indefinite suspension of an attorney who had previously been suspended for 60 days. The attorney (on mistaken advice of counsel) believed that his reinstatement was automatic after the 60 day period of...

The Power Of Bar Counsel
The Maryland Court of Appeals suspended a lawyer in 1998 and ordered reinstatement in 2006. Bar Counsel, who neither supported or opposed reinstatement, advised the court of pending litigation involving the petitioner (which is what a lawyer seeking reinstatement is...

Reinstatement Denied Where Restitution Not Made
The Nebraska Supreme Court denied an application for reinstatement of a disbarred attorney. The attorney had been suspended for a false representation and then disbarred in 1997 for an income-tax conviction...

SC Supreme Court holds that filing of an ODC complaint is not grounds to remove appointed PCR counsel
In Richardson v. State, the State Supreme Court dealt with the issue of a PCR judge refusing to relieve PCR counsel. The court addressed this matter because of the recurring problem of PCR applicants seeking repeatedly to have their appointed counsel relieved...

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

Power of Attorney and Living Wills for the aged
Options for caring for aging parents

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

Grandparents Visitation Rights
Every state lets elderly grandparents petition to visit grandchildren

McAfee, Symantec
Settle Investigation into Automatic Antivirus Subscription Practices

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
has been accused of not doing enough to keep addicted gamblers who have signed up for a "self-exclusion" program out of casinos.

Wind and Hail Coverage
Allstate Corp. agrees to restore insurance coverage and pay $250,000 settlement.

AIG
and Ex Execs to pay $115 Million to Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana

Heating System Thermostats
Recalled due to Shock Hazard

Cardinal Health
Issues Class 1 Recall of Alaris System