14 results for 'judge:"VanMeter"'.
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
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. 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
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[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
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
J. VanMeter dissolves attorney Ronnie Lee Goldy's temporary suspension for commencing a sexual relationship with an inmate in return for his representation while serving as a commonwealth attorney because he no longer poses a threat to the public following impeachment and removal from his position.
Court: Kentucky Supreme Court, Judge: VanMeter, Filed On: June 15, 2023, Case #: 2022-SC-0289-KB, Categories: Attorney Discipline