Recent law news/headlines from around the circuit.
But first, a picture of the courthouse in Adair County:
Adair County Courthouse
500 Public Square, Suite 6
Columbia, Ky. 42728
Phone Number:
270-384-2626
Fax Number:
270-384-4299
Click here for link to AOC page with more information.
And now for some headlines from around the Commonwealth found at news media and other sites. Be sure to click on the headings for routing to their site for the entire story:
An attorney for Paul Barth, the suspended McMahan Fire Protection District fire chief, said Wednesday that he suspects politics was behind the disciplinary action taken against the chief.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Department of Corrections properly freed thousands of individuals from prison and parole supervision under a controversial early-release program.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — In a decision that puts executions on hold, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's lethal injection procedure must be spelled out in a regulation.
The state Supreme Court has unanimously denied The Courier-Journal's motion to overturn a judge's decision sealing the evidence in the murder case against Cecil Eugene New II, the Louisville man accused of killing 4-year-old César Ivan Aguilar-Cano in 2007.
The ACLU of Kentucky has challenged a lawyer disciplinary rule under which an attorney was warned about "publicly implying" that the state Legislative Ethics Commission mishandled an ethics complaint against Senate President David Williams in 2007.
A former northern Kentucky teacher acquitted of having sex with a 16-year-old student is suing the prosecutor who brought the charges. The Kentucky Enquirer reports Nicole Howell filed the suit Wednesday in federal court in Covington against Kenton Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Sanders. In northern Kentucky, Kenton County officials have unanimously approved a six-figure payment to stop a lawsuit by a former deputy county clerk who claimed she was wrongfully fired. The Kentucky Enquirer reported 68-year-old Lois Davis sued after losing her job in the auto renewal department three years ago when Rodney Eldridge became the county clerk.Davis and six other deputies fired by Eldridge claimed in a federal lawsuit they were let go so the incoming clerk could reward supporters with government jobs.
Eldridge declined comment, saying the lawsuit remains active.
Kenton Judge-executive Ralph Drees declined to say what the settlement was after it was reached Tuesday, but Davis and her attorney said the amount was $136,333.
Ten nursing homes in Kentucky, including one in Lexington, are among the most poorly performing in the United States, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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