396 ABA Journal Kentucky articles.
For 30 years Justice John Paul Stevens has been a key vote upholding the death penalty. But now he has declared his is in opposition to capital punishment and that…
Apr 16, 2008 10:36 PM CDT
The jail in Hamilton County, Ohio, is already overcrowded. But that didn’t stop a local municipal court judge from setting a $1 million bond for Gary Weaver. So what is…
Apr 1, 2008 6:13 PM CDT
Troubles for the Kentucky-based American Justice School of Law are far from over, despite its new owners and settlement of a student-led lawsuit.
Indeed, the…
Mar 28, 2008 6:30 PM CDT
Bowling Green, Ky., lawyer Chris McKinney has received many accolades over the years. He was named Kentucky Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year in 2007, received…
Mar 20, 2008 3:11 PM CDT
A Kentucky judge who had an unwritten no-objections policy as far as prosecutors in his courtroom were concerned is going to have to reverse course.
A Jefferson County Circuit Court…
Mar 11, 2008 10:52 PM CDT
The California Supreme Court is the nation’s most influential state court and the Kentucky Supreme Court is the least, according to a study of citations recently published in a law…
Mar 11, 2008 12:07 PM CDT
A disgruntled client who decked his appointed defense counsel last month got the new lawyer he was seeking … and more.
Although public defender Doug Crickmer said at the time…
Mar 4, 2008 12:58 AM CST
A Kentucky judge has threatened to hold prosecutors in contempt if they don’t stop making “obnoxious, ridiculous, abundant and useless objections” during probable cause hearings.
Jefferson District Judge Sean Delahanty…
Feb 7, 2008 12:08 AM CST
An unhappy client punched his legal counsel in a Kentucky courtroom Monday, saying that he wanted new representation.
And Scott Hafer got his wish after punching public defender Doug Crickmer…
Feb 6, 2008 4:54 PM CST
Five professors at the American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Ky.—about one-fourth of the faculty—resigned effective Friday, saying they won’t come back until…
Feb 4, 2008 11:51 AM CST
A Kentucky judge ordered her courtroom scrubbed after learning a lawyer had been quarantined for possible meningitis.
Judge Leigh Ann Stephens of Perry County pitched in to help, Jan 23, 2008 2:50 PM CST
Louisville, Ky., lawyers Tyler and Todd Thompson represent opposing parties in a medical malpractice case.
The suit against hospital chain HCA Inc. claims more than 100 patients were injured by…
Jan 3, 2008 2:33 PM CST
Students at a private Kentucky law school have a chance to show their administrators what they’ve learned.
They’ve filed a federal suit against the 2-year-old American Justice School of Law,…
Nov 26, 2007 6:22 PM CST
More than 400 plaintiffs who claimed their lawyers defrauded them out of money due in a pharmaceutical settlement have been awarded a 20 percent stake in champion race horse Curlin.
…Nov 5, 2007 5:03 PM CST
A former legal assistant to one of three jailed personal injury lawyers accused of bilking $65 million from clients in diet drug litigation allegedly spied on her boss for the…
Oct 9, 2007 8:01 PM CDT
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