63 results for 'court:"Kentucky Supreme Court"'.
J. VanMeter finds that an indefinite suspension should be imposed upon attorney Gary Alan Tabler for failing to timely estate inventories and periodic settlements while functioning as long-term administrator of an estate, then failing to respond to the charge.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: April 18, 2024, Case #: 2024-SC-0027-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline
J. VanMeter finds that Kentucky properly exercised jurisdiction over a minor child in a custody dispute because statute stipulates emergency custody on grounds that the mother now resided with the child in the commonwealth, and since the parents had moved frequently prior to the dispute, which deprived any other state of jurisdiction. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: March 14, 2024, Case #: 2023-SC-0251-MR, Categories: Family Law, Jurisdiction
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[Consolidated.] J. Bisig finds that commercial real estate proceeds were properly distributed following the sale of a building because all parties had signed a binding memorandum that governed distribution of sale proceeds and imposed a bifurcated distribution formula with a sale price threshold and sales commission deduction. Reversed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Bisig, Filed On: March 14, 2024, Case #: 2022-SC-0478-DG, Categories: Contract
J. VanMeter finds that plaintiff, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, was allowed to file claims for the city's vicarious liability concerning abuse committed by her father, a police officer, because the 2021 amendment to KRS 413.249(7)(b) permitted claims to be filed five years beyond the statute of limitations.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: February 15, 2024, Case #: 2022-SC-0308-DG, Categories: Civil Procedure, Negligence
J. Thompson finds that the lower court properly dismissed claims seeking damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress claims brought after plaintiff signed a release as co-administrator of her daughter's estate after her daughter died in an drunk driving accident caused by her son-in-law because plaintiff failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Thompson, Filed On: February 15, 2024, Case #: 2022-SC-0438-DG, Categories: Damages, Emotional Distress
J. Conley finds that the medical provider was properly granted summary judgment for the patient's lawsuit alleging that he injured his ankle, underwent surgery, then allegedly reinjured it when a staff member pushed it into a desk while the patient was being transported in a wheelchair. The patient did not provide necessary expert medical testimony on causation. Reversed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Conley, Filed On: January 18, 2024, Case #: 2022-SC-0302-DG, Categories: Negligence, Experts
[Consolidated.] J. Bisig finds that the commonwealth did not engage in unconstitutional gerrymandering upon apportioning voting districts because the voting disparity involved only three of 100 seats and thus did not rise to the level of flagrant partisanship or an unwarranted violation of constitutional rights. Affirmed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Bisig, Filed On: December 14, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0522-TG, Categories: Constitution, Elections
J. VanMeter finds that the trial court properly dismissed claims an attorney brought against the director of the bar association after he was erroneously told he passed the state bar exam because the director acted on behalf of the commonwealth upon relaying the faulty information and thus was entitled to immunity. Reversed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: December 14, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0412-DG , Categories: Immunity, Negligence
Per curiam, the Kentucky Supreme Court finds that attorney Richard Boling should be suspended one year for presenting an erroneous timeline of text messages in a client's trial on complicity to manslaughter charges brought after a woman died upon taking drugs she bought from him.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: December 14, 2023, Case #: 2023-SC-0444-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the Kentucky Supreme Court finds that reciprocal discipline should be imposed upon attorney Jay Rosenberg based on the permanent disbarment order entered in Virginia. He processed thousands of real estate deeds that contained significant errors and which had not been reviewed by a Virginia-licensed attorney before delivery to clients.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: October 26, 2023, Case #: 2023-SC-0273-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline
[Consolidated.] J. Van Meter finds that the court of appeals should have dismissed civil claims contending a young girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning after residential contractors performed work on their house because plaintiffs delayed more than two years before appointing an administratrix for the estate after the original administrator passed away. Reversed.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Van Meter, Filed On: October 26, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0177-DG, Categories: Civil Procedure, Wrongful Death
Per curiam, the Kentucky Supreme Court permanently disbars attorney Michael Todd Hogan based on his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and federal program fraud after he issued checks to his wife from a delinquent tax account for the county attorney's office and defrauded the county child support enforcement office by billing the program for more hours than he actually worked.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: September 28, 2023, Case #: 2023-SC-0202-KB , Categories: Attorney Discipline