A group of eight current and former employees of United Parcel Service in Kentucky have sued the company saying they faced racial discrimination, poor treatment based on race and retaliation after they complained. The men also contend an effigy of …
Religious institutions in Kentucky may hire and fire people from strictly ecclesiastical jobs as they see fit, but could face legal action if an employment contract is involved, the Kentucky Supreme Court recently ruled. In two decisions, the justices reinstated …
The widow of a former cigarette factory worker has lost her bid for a new trial seeking compensation for her husband’s death, contending that he died of exposure to asbestos while working and smoking at a factory that made cigarettes. …
A large Chicago-based accounting firm has been hit with a $99 million judgment stemming from a fraud lawsuit brought by a Kentucky family that owns dozens of hotels and more than a half-dozen casinos around the country. Kenton (Kentucky) Circuit …
A group of 431 people sickened by the diet drug fen-phen should be allowed to collect a $42 million judgment from their former attorneys who pilfered a massive settlement with the drug’s maker, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled last week. …
A former Kentucky lawmaker serving life in prison apologized publicly for the first time Friday to the family of his former fiance, whom he pleaded guilty to shooting and killing in Lexington four years ago. During a hearing in Fayette …
A federal judge in Louisville has dismissed an entire jury pool in a civil case because one of the jurors did online research about the defendant. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Moyer excused the panel in a case brought by Cincinnati …
An Ohio attorney known as the godfather of the modern class-action lawsuit was disbarred Thursday by the Kentucky Supreme Court, which cited Stanley Chesley’s actions in a $200 million settlement involving the makers of a diet drug. The high court …
Oxycontin has become so pervasive in eastern Kentucky the drug was dubbed “Heroin of the Hills.” Now, after years of struggling to combat the abuse of the narcotic, Kentucky officials are getting a chance to pursue the drug’s maker in …
A former Kentucky lawmaker serving life in prison for killing his one-time fiancee has been found liable in a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by the victim’s mother. The decision by Fayette Circuit Judge James Ishmael clears the way for …
