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Lawyer fights ruling in priest sex-abuse case
Ethics case starting as fee dispute between Barbara Bonar and Stan Chesley
COVINGTON - The immediate past president of the Kentucky Bar Association is challenging a state appeals court ruling that upheld a finding that she acted unethically while representing priest sex-abuse victims.
Barbara Bonar, who has a law office in the Latonia neighborhood, said she is now going to ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to review the ruling. The appeals court has already denied her motion to reconsider their opinion affirming a lower court ruling.
Kentucky has 16,000 licensed lawyers. Our state is full of highly competent lawyers who practice law here, were educated here, and have spent their adult lives as participants in legal activities here. However once again our Senior Senator has nominated a Cincinnati lawyer to represent the interests of Kentuckians.
Mary Fondrisi takes Amy Roth's calls. Though from Fondrisi, Roth wants work.
Louisville lawyer Fred Radolovich's defense of juvenile Michael Jennings in 1995 was so incompetent that the two life sentences Jennings is serving for murders committed when he was 14 should be thrown out, a federal judge ruled on Monday.Has the KBA Inquiry Commission and Bar Counsel Crossed the Line in Expanding Limits on Attorneys Free Speech Rights? Editorial by LawReader Senior Editor Stan Billingsley - Dec. 23, 2009
Conway appeals to U.S. Supreme Court
By John Cheves - jcheves@herald-leader.com
Attorney General Jack Conway on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Kentucky Supreme Court on a ruling that would allow some registered sex offenders to live where they choose, without restrictions.
Steve Henry accepts plea deal on campaign funds
By John Cheves - jcheves@herald-leader.com
FRANKFORT — Former Lt. Gov. Steve Henry accepted a plea deal Tuesday to three misdemeanors related to misusing campaign resources during his failed 2007 run in the Democratic primary for governor.
Editorials: Henry's conviction from Courier Journal
Editorials: Jim King should exit from Courier Journal
After being found guilty Henry proceeded to launch a spirited defense that he chose not to present in court.
Mayoral candidate Jim King says he can find money to provide police with extra resources to combat gang and street violence by securing federal grants, using savings from energy conservation efforts and using increasing tax receipts as the recession ends.
A teenager has pleaded guilty to murder and tampering with evidence in last year's shooting death of his father in Smiths Grove.
In the closing hours of the 2005 General Assembly, the state Senate stripped a House bill of language relating to state employees' pensions, inserted a committee substitute dealing with legislative pensions, approved the morphed bill on a 30-2 vote and sent it back to the House, where it passed 48-36 moments later. [this was an old one i think i overlooked]WASHINGTON The Senate s 60 to 39 vote Thursday to overhaul the nation s health care system President Barack Obama's top 2009 domestic priority--moves the nation closer than it s ever been to a dramatic change in how people get medical care.
The $871 billion bill, approved on a party line vote, would require most Americans to obtain health coverage, and would provide federal aid for those having difficulty affording it. As smart phones like the Apple iPhone grow more and more popular, a downtown Lexington business is looking to capitalize quickly on the market.
Apax Software has about a quarter of its projects focused on mobile devices now and two of its dozen or so employees devoted to them non-stop. Among the employees working on the devices is a Paul Laurence Dunbar High School junior, Nick Profitt, who developed an application on his own earlier this year that was approved by Apple for its iPhone application store.
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