63 results for 'court:"Kentucky Supreme Court"'.
J. Thompson finds that a foreign online gambling syndicate should be denied a writ of prohibition against the lower court's finding that the syndicate had engaged in illegal gambling activities involving Kentucky residents. The court had jurisdiction to consider the matter since the syndicate had been dissolved solely to thwart pending litigation, and thus non-existing defendant claims lacked credence. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Thompson, Filed On: September 28, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0561-MR, Categories: Jurisdiction
Per curiam, the Kentucky Supreme Court reinstates attorney Roderick Anibal Tejeda to the practice of law after he was suspended for four years based on his guilty plea to reckless homicide stemming from an automobile accident. Tejeda has been continuously employed as a certified alcohol and drug counselor or as a commercial truck driver; he had maintained sobriety; and he has been heavily involved in helping others with alcohol dependence recovery.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: September 28, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0470-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline
J. Keller finds that an employee was properly allowed to continue workers' compensation claims concerning coal workers’ pneumoconiosis because the statutory obligation to provide notice of claim was triggered upon being reasonably apprised that his already existing condition took a turn for the worse attributable to his current employment. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Keller, Filed On: September 28, 2023, Case #: 2023-SC-0028-WC, Categories: Civil Procedure, Workers' Compensation
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Per curiam, the Kentucky Supreme Court finds that attorney Leila Louise Hale should be publicly reprimanded as reciprocal discipline to that imposed in Nevada, where she prematurely took client funds from a trust and failed to properly disburse remaining funds after negotiating medical liens.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: August 24, 2023, Case #: 2023-SC-0165-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline
[Consolidated.] J. VanMeter finds that the lower court improperly admitted evidence of other accidents occurring during use of ladderstands, such as the one from which a hunter fell when the tree strap broke, then failed to instruct the jury to refrain from considering the evidence. Reversed in part.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: August 24, 2023, Case #: 2020-SC-0247-DG, Categories: Evidence, Product Liability
Per curiam, the Kentucky Supreme Court finds that attorney Shameka Lynn O'Neil should receive public reprimand for repeatedly speaking over the court and leaving a Zoom meeting in contempt after the court informed her she would not be allowed to withdraw from representing a client.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: August 24, 2023, Case #: 2023-SC-0148-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the Kentucky Supreme Court finds that attorney David Cohen should be suspended for three years for accepting cash fees without disclosing clients or fees to his firm, submitting fraudulent expense reports, and writing checks to himself in which he forged the managing partner's signature.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: August 24, 2023, Case #: 2023-SC-0203-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline
J. Nickell finds that the insurer may have improperly denied uninsured motorist benefits to plaintiff following a collision because the expert witness's lack of appropriate medical credentials should have prohibited him from testifying regarding plaintiff's injury. Reversed in part.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Nickell, Filed On: June 15, 2023, Case #: 2021-SC-0281-DG, Categories: Insurance, Experts
J. VanMeter finds that third-party claimant’s bad faith action was not premature in claims contending defendants damaged land and deprived heirs of mineral royalties by trespassing on property and drilling natural gas wells because the original suit had been fully adjudicated. Reversed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: June 15, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0043-DG, Categories: Civil Procedure, Insurance
J. VanMeter finds that an estate was properly granted summary judgment in waste, fraud, conversion, and fiduciary duty claims contending beneficiaries depleted the estate because depletion constituted permissive rather than voluntary waste. Reversed in part.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: June 15, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0056-DG, Categories: Fraud, Fiduciary Duty, Conversion