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		<title>KBA MEMBERS CAN ACCESS CourtNet DATABASE IN THREE EASY STEPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By KBA -e-news For Kentucky Bar Association members, gaining access to the CourtNet database is as easy as one, two, three. With only three steps, attorneys can view all pending civil and criminal cases in Kentucky. If a criminal case is pending, an attorney can also see both opened and closed cases associated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Mary C. Noble named deputy chief justice of Supreme Court of Kentucky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  FRANKFORT, Ky., Sept. 1, 2010 – Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr. has named Justice Mary C. Noble as deputy chief justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Justice Noble has served as a justice since November 2006 and as a judge for more than 18 years. “I am pleased to announce that Justice Noble will serve as deputy chief justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ct. of Appeals Judge Kelly Thompson &#8220;sanctions&#8221; fisherman in humorous order.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Court of Appeals Judge Kelly Thompson from Bowling Green, Ky. has issued an order &#8220;sanctioning&#8221; an attorney who sought a continuance of an Oral Argument in order to go fishing.   Judge Thompson demonstrates that he is a jurist who has a sense of humor and he has his priorities straight.  This order provides a reference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ky. Sup. Ct. Amends &#8220;open and obvious&#8221; rule in slip and fall cases &#8211; Comparative Negligence applied.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 26, 2010 the Ky. Supreme Court created an exception to the &#8220;open and obvious&#8221; defense in slip and fall cases.   The &#8220;open and obvious&#8221; defense still exists but is now subject to comparative negligence review.  The Court stated: &#8220;&#8230;That harm from an open and obvious danger can sometimes be foreseeable suggests that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Conway Names 2010 Outstanding Commonwealth&#8217;s and County Attorneys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office of the Attorney General Attorney General Conway Names 2010 Outstanding Commonwealth&#8217;s and County Attorneys Press Release Date:  Thursday, August 26, 2010   Contact Information:  Shelley Catharine Johnson Deputy Communications Director 502-696-5659 (office)     Attorney General Jack Conway today presented the awards for the 2010 Outstanding Commonwealth&#8217;s and County Attorneys at the Kentucky Prosecutor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo Wins Disputed Child Support Claim Filed by Travis A. Fritsch  &#8211; Retroactive Child Support Not Allowed</title>
		<link>http://news.lawreader.com/?p=3233</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  RENDERED: AUGUST 27, 2010; 10:00 A.M. NOT TO BE PUBLISHED Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals NO. 2009-CA-000278-MR TRAVIS A. FRITSCH APPELLANT APPEAL FROM FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT v. HONORABLE THOMAS L. CLARK, JUDGE ACTION NO. 01-CI-01677 GREGORY D. STUMBO APPELLEE OPINION AFFIRMING ** ** ** ** ** BEFORE: TAYLOR, CHIEF JUDGE; DIXON, JUDGE; HENRY,1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAMILY COURT JUDGE TAMRA GORMLEY GIVEN PUBLIC  REPRIMAND AND A 45 DAY SUSPENSION FROM JUDICIAL SERVICE AND FORFEITURE OF PAY &#8211; ct. finds she denied due process in several cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUDICIAL CONDUCT COMMISSION UPHELD &#8211; JUDGE FOUND TO HAVE DENIED DUE  DUE PROCESS TO LITIGANTS  The Ky. Supreme Court opinion issued on August 26, 2010 said:  Incompetent judges can be eliminated at the ballot box.&#8221;  Judicial misconduct is different. The Judicial Conduct Commission&#8217;s review is not focused merely on the judge&#8217;s findings, conclusions, and ultimate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee cautions judicial candidates about soliciting and accepting contributions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Kentucky Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee cautions judicial candidates about soliciting and accepting contributions  August 14, 2010  In a Kentucky case decided July 13, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that judicial candidates have First Amendment rights to personally solicit campaign funds and to announce their party affiliation and receive political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAWREADER ANNOUNCES NEW COLUMN BY HON. JASON NEMES &#8211; INSIDE THE KY. SUPREME COURT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEMES, JASON &#8211; INSIDE THE SUPREME COURT  August 17, 2010 LawReader has added  Jason Nemes as a columnist.  He will focus on the Supreme Court and our Justices. Few people short of someone who has served on the Supreme Court, have as much knowledge of this subject than Jason Nemes.  Jason previously was employed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee cautions judicial candidates about soliciting and accepting contributions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ August 14, 2010  In a Kentucky case decided July 13, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that judicial candidates have First Amendment rights to personally solicit campaign funds and to announce their party affiliation and receive political party endorsements. The appellate court sent the case of Carey v. Wolnitzek back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Justice Minton Calls for Three-pronged attack on prison costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ky. Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr.                            August 11, 2010 The core function of the state courts is the adjudication of legal disputes. And of all the legal disputes we adjudicate, our courts spend more time by far presiding over criminal cases. Each year our judges faithfully apply the law of this state to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Statistical Justice Index For Our Courts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article is excerpted from the New York Times      8-11-2010 &#8230;while millions of Americans deal with their local criminal courts as defendants and victims each year, there is no comparable way to assess a judicial system and determine how well it provides basic legal services. This lack of data has a corrosive effect: without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers: Proponents of California&#8217;s Prop 8 have no standing for appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  From NBC&#8217;s Pete Williams    Aug 9, 2010 Lawyers for the gay couples who successfully challenged California&#8217;s Proposition 8 have raised a question about whether the other side in the battle &#8212; the proponents of Prop 8 &#8212; have the legal right to appeal. If this point turns out to get traction, some experts say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge suspended for rudeness &#8211; Calls litigants &#8220;Stupid&#8221; and &#8220;Idiots&#8221; and whistles at the bench &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Supreme Court imposes 5-day suspension; four justices say 90 days is warranted By LEVI PULKKINEN  SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF In a mixed decision, the state Supreme Court has penalized a King County District Court judge accused of extreme rudeness in her Burien courtroom. Writing the lead opinion, Supreme Court Justice James M. Johnson noted District Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State sovereign immunity defense may be voided if it conflicts with Federal Law.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State sovereign immunity defense may be voided if it conflicts with Federal Law. The following cases suggest that if a claim is valid under Section 1983 of the Federal Civil Rights Act, that state law granting immunity to the official cannot override Federal law under the Supremacy Clause. Jefferson County Fiscal Court v. Peerce, 132 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital Stroke Scans Causing Radiation Overdoses &#8211; Patients Face Serious Health Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NY TIMES   July 31, 2010 Hospital Stroke Scans Causing Radiation Overdoses &#8211; Patients Face Serious Health Risks By WALT BOGDANICH When Alain Reyes’s hair suddenly fell out in a freakish band circling his head, he was not the only one worried about his health. His co-workers at a shipping company avoided him, and his boss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caution to Plaintiff&#8217;s Counsel &#8211;If Medicare Paid your Client you may be subject to a lien and can be personally liable for repayment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company in their July 2010 newsletter warned attorneys who settle cases in which the plaintiff may have been paid &#8220;conditional&#8221; medicare benefits, that the government has a lien against any funds received by the client.   The problem is that they have been holding attorneys liable when the collect back the conditional benefits they paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Mitch McConnell Admits Partisan Delay of Judicial Nominees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hagan smokes out McConnell Sen. Kay Hagan tried again on the Senate floor yesterday to get a confirmation vote for two North Carolina judges nominated to serve on the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. She failed, but she did manage to smoke out Republican leader Mitch McConnell as the chief obstacle. After strong approval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Texting Law Goes Into Effect &#8211; Minors cannot use cell phones while driving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ban extends to cell phone use for 16- and 17-year-old drivers FRANKFORT, Ky. – Governor Steve Beshear’s ongoing effort to make Kentucky roads safer takes a big step on Thursday, July 15, when a new law takes effect to ban texting for all drivers and cell phone use for drivers under 18. Kentucky recorded more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SIXTH. CIRT. CT. OF APPEALS VOIDS KY. RULES FORBIDDING JUDGES FROM ACCEPTING DONATIONS FROM POLITICAL PARTIES AND AFFILIATING WITH A POLITICAL PARTY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a surprising ruling, Ky. Judicial Campaign Rules are turned upside down. The ruling demonstrates the growing trend of the Federal Courts to void laws or ethics rule that limits free speech of lawyers and judges. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati,  on Tuesday cleared the way for Kentucky judicial candidates to raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lindsay Lohan Has No Intention of Going to Jail   &#8211; Blames Her Lawyer &#8211; Anyone Want To Bet On that?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan might have been sentenced to 90 days in the slammer last week by an angry judge, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the troubled young actress is going down without a fight. &#8220;Lindsay has no intention of going to jail,&#8221; a friend of Lohan&#8217;s tells me. &#8220;The only thing that Lindsay did wrong was hire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida chief justice creates innocence panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new chief justice of the state Supreme Court created the Florida Innocence Commission on Friday, saying it will study issues dealing with wrongful convictions over the next two years. Chief Justice Charles Canady signed an administrative order establishing the 23-member panel just a day after beginning his two-year term overseeing the high court. Panel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Sup. Ct. Voids Honest Services Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                                                                                                                                                            The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply curtailed prosecutors&#8217; use of an anti-fraud law that was central in convicting politicians and corporate executives in many of the nation&#8217;s most prominent corruption cases. The ex-CEO of disgraced energy giant Enron and a Canadian media mogul, both in prison, are among the figures who could benefit from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oldham County Attorney John Fendley Suffers Fatal Injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fendley, 64, sustained fatal head injuries from a blow to the head by a horse he was loading into a horse trailer.   Fendley had served as County Attorney for 21 years.  Funeral arrangements have not yet been set.   The County Judge will appoint a replacement who will serve until the end of the current term  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court Extends 2nd. Amendment Gun Rights to Strike Down Restrictive State Gun Regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court today found that the constitutional right to bear arms applies to local and state efforts to regulate guns, a ruling that could place limits on some gun control laws across the country. The 5-4 ruling could be particularly important in California, which has some of the strictest gun laws of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Ct. Voids Business-Method Patents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long-awaited ruling in Bilski v. Kappos was finally handed down on Monday, giving you all some 66 meaty pages to sink your teeth into. Click here for the early WSJ story on the ruling. The bottom line: the Supreme Court, in an opinion written largely by Justice Anthony Kennedy, invalidated the patent at issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law Schools Are Inflating Grades &#8211; Loyola by 1/3,  Others alter traditional grades to make all graudates more attractice to employers&#8230;..So if that young Harvard Grad says he was an A student&#8230;.maybe he just got B&#8217;s like you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By CATHERINE RAMPELL One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. But it’s not because they are all working harder. The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Who Overturned Drilling Ban Has Significant Oil Holdings &#8211; Possible Ethics conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The federal judge who overruled the administration&#8217;s six-month moratorium &#60;http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/06/22/us/AP-US-Gulf-Oil-Spill.html?_r=1&#38;hp&#62; on deepwater drilling, stating that the government did not made a strong enough case for the ban, &#8220;has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry,&#8221; the Associated Press &#60;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9GGS6FO0&#62; reported.* In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman wrote that the administration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Dist. Judge Bertlesman Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Kenton Com. Attn. Rob Sanders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COVINGTON – A lawsuit claiming that a former Dayton High School teacher – accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student – was maliciously prosecuted has been thrown out of federal court.   Nicole Howell, who was acquitted of the criminal charge, claimed in the suit filed in November that Kenton Commonwealth’s Attorney Rob Sanders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court rejects workers&#8217; text privacy &#8211; Employers may access worker&#8217;s messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Employees who want to send highly personal notes to a romantic partner were given a word of warning by the Supreme Court on Thursday: Do not use the messaging system supplied by your employer if you want to avoid embarrassment. In a 9-0 ruling, the justices rejected a broad right of privacy for workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court  finds hundreds of labor cases were improperly decided due to lack of sufficient quorum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcia Coyle   National Law Journal  June 17, 2010 The vacancy-plagued National Labor Relations Board did not have authority to issue nearly 600 decisions in the last two years with only two board members, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. In New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board, a 5-4 Court upended the NLRB&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUPREME CT. DISMISSES PROSECUTION OF PREGNANT MOTHER WHO INGESTED DRUGS- REMANDS CASE OF PILOT WHO WAS A PASSENGER GOING TO WORK STATION UNDER WORKER&#8217;S COMP. GOING AND COMING RULE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kentucky Supreme Court issued 37 rulings on Thursday June 17, 2010.   All cases are synopsized in LawReader.   You must be a member to access these important cases. In one case the Court upheld a trial court who dismissed a charge against a mother who ingested drugs while pregnant.  The Court ruled that the legislature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUSTICE WINTERSHEIMER PUBLISHES A NEW BOOK TITLED  &#8220;SECRETS OF THE KY. SUPREME COURT.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by Judge Stan Billingsley (Ret.) Justice Wintersheimer has published a 384 page book which details his career on the court and reveals many anecdotes about his work and relationship with other  Justices and court personnel.  We particularly enjoyed one story about Justice Leibson who was walking near the  Juniper Hills Golf Course in Frankfort, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOMERSET COMMONWEALTH&#8217;S ATTORNEY EDDY MONTGOMERY THWARTS BRIBERY ATTEMPT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Lesson to criminals don&#8217;t try to bribe a Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney!!!  Relatives of a convicted drug dealer plotted to offer the commonwealth&#8217;s attorney $20,000 to get the man out of prison, police have charged. Those charged are Everett Hyden, 64; Noble Hampton, 63; his daughter Virginia &#8220;Carol&#8221; Hampton, 44; and Walter Creekmore, 62, all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attn. Gen. Jack Conway is Correct On l4th. Amendment and Citizenshhip of Children Born in U.S. to illegal alien parents.  Rand Paul is wrong  on the law.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LawReader legal opinion by LawReader&#8217;s Senior Editor Stan Billingsley:                        June 4, 2010 Attorney General Jack Conway recently responded to a question regarding Rand Paul&#8217;s suggestion that the l4th. Amendment did not grant citizenship to a child of parents who were illegally in this country.  Conway commented that was a &#8220;well settled issue&#8221; and that such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Ct. Rulings for Tuesday June 1, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Tuesday: ___ _ Ruled 5-4 that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations. _ Unanimously held that a former Somali official could not use the federal foreign sovereign immunity law to protect himself from a lawsuit filed in a U.S. court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a 5-4 decision the U.S. Supreme Court weakened Miranda rights by holding that a suspect must explicitly tell police they want to be silent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 5-4 decision the U.S. Supreme Court weakened Miranda rights by holding that a suspect must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke their Miranda protection during interrogations.  A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are the first of the Miranda rights warnings, which police recite to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Fen Phen case&#8230;.claims of 50 litigants represented by Angela Ford dismissed due to statute of limitations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 13:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fen phen case which was filed by some 50 litigants whose cases were transferred from the Ky. fen phen case to another attorney and joined in a class action in Alabama.   This case is different from the Boone County fen phen case which is currently on appeal to the ct. of appeals. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court Toughens Standards for Consideration of Plain Error Rule.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   2nd. Circuit Court had ruled that &#8220;whenever there exists &#8216;any possibility, no matter how unlikely, that the jury could have convicted based exclusively on pre-enactment conduct,&#8221; a new trial was justified.   The Supreme Court reversed that standard and held that the error must be sufficiently weighty to affect &#8216;substantial rights.   Mark Hamblett New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOV. SIGNS BILL TO GIVE PREFERENCE TO IN-STATE BIDDERS ON STATE CONTRACTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOV. SIGNS BILL TO GIVE PREFERENCE TO IN-STATE BIDDERS ON STATE CONTRACTS FRANKFORT, Ky. –  Gov. Steve Beshear on April 26th. signed into law legislation that will provide Kentucky-based businesses a level playing field with out-of-state vendors as they compete for Kentucky state government contracts. “This bill will go a long way toward leveling the [...]]]></description>
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