FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - An appeals court has found several problems with a $23 million Kentucky verdict against CSX and its chief medical officer, who were accused of defaming two West Virginia chiropractors they thought were fabricating worker injuries.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - The Kentucky Supreme Court has found it appropriate to remove one of the state's circuit court clerks from office after investigating claims of sexual harassment and hostile work environment brought by two women in the office.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - A year after its initial ruling, the Kentucky Supreme Court announced it won't change its mind to order a new trial in the case of a man who fell out of a tree stand.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - Parents of a little boy who was drowned after being sucked 430 feet through a drainage pipe behind his house can sue the local sewer authority despite general statutory immunity from tort suits under state law, a Kentucky appeals court ruled.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - A man who limited his prenatal care to sending a $25 Walmart moneygram to the mother of his child can nevertheless sue for a share of the proceeds of a wrongful-death settlement over the baby’s stillbirth, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who burned her feet on hot pavement at a water park can’t win money from the park’s municipal owner after Kentucky’s highest court ruled the hazard was open and obvious risk.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - A Kentucky couple who sued the hospital that delivered their son after he died from a brain injury lost their request to block a subpoena for nine years of Facebook posts, with the state’s highest court saying they wouldn’t suffer any irreparable harm by turning it over.
FRANKFORT, KY (Legal Newsline) - A Kentucky couple who sued the hospital that delivered their son after he died from a brain injury lost their request to block a subpoena for nine years of Facebook posts, with the state’s highest court saying they wouldn’t suffer any irreparable harm by turning it over.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – A police officer who chased a suspect through downtown Louisville can’t be held liable for the carnage that resulted: The death of a girl on her 12th birthday.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – The Kentucky Supreme Court will let a lawsuit proceed against Johnson & Johnson over a catheter – despite preliminary approval for use by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – On Oct. 31, the Supreme Court of Kentucky dismissed a lawsuit against a Lexington company that raised biblical principals in its decision to refuse to print T-shirts for a local Pride festival.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Kentucky ruled earlier this year that police can be sued in the commonwealth for damages if car chases lead to the injury or death of third parties. The decision overturned a previous Supreme Court decision dating to 1952.
Breathitt County Schools officials are shielded by qualified immunity in litigation brought by the victim of alleged sexual abuse by a former teacher, the Kentucky Supreme Court recently ruled.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – Over a lone justice's dissent that concerns over qualified immunity remain in the case of a 36-year-old woman who died in a Russell County detox cell in 2011, a Kentucky Supreme Court majority recently upheld a decision that granted summary judgment in the favor of jail personnel.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Kentucky affirmed the Court of Appeals’ decision to grant in part and deny in part the Presbyterian Church’s request for an order to block a trial court from removing its stay of discovery amid a former worker’s defamation lawsuit against it.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – A landmark ruling by the Kentucky Supreme Court on Aug. 24 allowing class action lawsuits at the state level in cases involving wage and hour disputes could cause a spike in the number of such lawsuits.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – The Kentucky Supreme Court has sided with an appeals court ruling that reversed a trial court judgment in a wrongful death lawsuit over the 2005 shooting death of Christina Wittich.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a medical malpractice lawsuit can move forward, siding with an appeals court’s decision that a trial court judge erred when he dismissed the case for lack of an expert witness.
The Kentucky Supreme Court, in a ruling last month, said the state Court of Appeals read and applied past high court decisions too narrowly. The appeals court had reversed and remanded for entry of a defense judgment, invoking the common law’s “open and obvious” doctrine.
