Kentucky Defamation Law
Reuben Jelani Adams, et al. v Lexington-Fayette County Urban Government, et al.
<h2><br> Lexington, Kentucky civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiffs.<br> </h2><br> This matter is before the Court on the Defendants' motions to dismiss. [R. 13.] The five plaintiffs were football players at the University of Kentucky. [R. 1 at 1.] Months after a houseparty ended in a physical altercation, Detective Cory Vinlove submitted a criminal complaint charging the Plaintiffs with... More...
$0 (10-04-2024 - KY)Dr. Larry Cunningham v. David W. Blackwell, et al.
Lexington, Kentucky civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a 1983 civil rights violation theory.<br> <br> The University of Kentucky investigated two dentistry<br> professors for entering false data about whether they, or their students, had performed services<br> for patients at a university clinic and whether they, or the clinic, should be paid for those<br> services.... More...
$0 (07-25-2022 - KY)PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.) V. HON. BRIAN C. EDWARDS, JUDGE AND REV. ERIC HOEY
<center><br> <img width="300" src=" https://botw-pd.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/logo-thumbnail/s3/0003/7759/brand.gif?itok=jiRI77rC "><br> <h2> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> <br> The Presbyterian Ministry Agency (PMA) hired Reverend Eric Hoey as the <br> Director of Evangelism and Church Growth. During his tenure in that <br> position, Hoey acted with other ministers to incorporate an entity separat... More...
$0 (10-01-2018 - KY)<b>CARLOS LAMONT ORDWAY V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY </b>
During a summer evening in 2007, Ordway was traveling in the front <br> passenger seat of a stolen car with two acquaintances. Rodriquez "Hot Rod" <br> Turner was the car's driver and Patrick "Lee Lee" Lewis was in the back <br> passenger seat directly behind Ordway. According to Ordway, the group was <br> traveling from Louisville to Lexington to traffic in narcotics. The plan was for <br> Ordway... More...
$0 (10-15-2016 - KY)<b><h3>CARLOS LAMONT ORDWAY V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY </b></h3>
During a summer evening in 2007, Ordway was traveling in the front <br> passenger seat of a stolen car with two acquaintances. Rodriquez "Hot Rod" <br> Turner was the car's driver and Patrick "Lee Lee" Lewis was in the back <br> passenger seat directly behind Ordway. According to Ordway, the group was <br> traveling from Louisville to Lexington to traffic in narcotics. The plan was for <br> Ordway... More...
$0 (09-27-2016 - KY)Rodney Graves v. Amber Bowles, et al.
Plaintiff-appellant Rodney Graves was arrested under the mistaken belief that he robbed the U.S. Bank in Glasgow, Kentucky on August 10, 2007.<br> <br> The Glasgow police conducted the investigation that resulted in the warrant for Graves's arrest, and the Kentucky State Police Special Response Team carried out that arrest on August 15, outside of Glasgow's jurisdiction. The next day, police learn... More...
$0 (04-18-2011 - KY)Kenneth O. Kennedy v. City of Villa Hills, Kentucky
Kenneth O. Kennedy was embroiled in a zoning dispute about the expansion of a strip mall next to his home. In May 2005, he approached Joseph Schutzman, a police officer and building inspector, in the Villa Hills city building. Refusing to speak to Kennedy, Schutzman left the city building.<br><br>Kennedy told nearby city workers in the building that "that son of a bitch [Schutzman] broke all of th... More...
$0 (03-24-2011 - KY)Kenneth O. Kennedy v. City of Villa Hills, Kentucky
Kenneth O. Kennedy was embroiled in a zoning dispute about the expansion of a strip mall next to his home. In May 2005, he approached Joseph Schutzman, a police officer and building inspector, in the Villa Hills city building. Refusing to speak to Kennedy, Schutzman left the city building. Kennedy told nearby city workers in the building that "that son of a bitch [Schutzman] broke all of the zonin... More...
$0 (03-24-2011 - KY)Kimberly Burgess v. Paducah Area Transit Authority
GRAHAM, District Judge. Three former at-will employees of the Paducah Area Transit Service ("PATSâ€) allege that they were terminated after having raised concerns about the safety of PATS vehicles. They allegedly voiced their concerns in two letters sent to the PATS board of directors, though the letters on their face did not mention any safety issues. The letters reported that the "atmosphe... More...
$0 (07-13-2010 - KY)Bryan C. Jolley v. Ronnie D. Harvell, et al.
<P> Plaintiff Bryan C. Jolley ("Jolley") appeals from the order of the district court granted summary judgment to Defendants Ronnie Harvell ("Harvell") and Calvert City, Kentucky in this § 1983 action based on an allegedly illegal arrest. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM. <P> I. Background <P> At approximately 2:00 a.m. on October 6, 2002, Defendant Officer Ronnie D. Harvell, a polic... More...
$0 (11-16-2007 - KY)<a href="http://162.114.92.72/COA/2004-CA-002377.pdf#xml=http://162.114.92.72/dtsearch.asp?cmd=pdfhits&DocId=15803&Index=D%3a%5cInetpub%5cwwwroot%5cIndices%5cBoth%5fCourts%5fIndex&HitCount=1&hits=4+&hc=149&req=2007" target="_new">A.R., by Her Next Friends, M.R. and W.R.; and M.R. and W.R., on their own behalf v. Fayette County Board of Education, et al.</a>
<P>A.R., by her next friends M.R. and W.R., and M.R. and W.R., on their own behalf (collectively "A.R."), have appealed from the order of the Fayette Circuit Court entered on July 22, 2004, which dismissed all claims against the appellees, the Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS), the Board of Education of Fayette County (the Board), Michael Brady, and Earl Stivers.3 Having concluded that the... More...
$0 (01-20-2007 - KY)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=03a0012p.06" target="_new">Torre S. Crockett; DuShon L. Greene v. Cumberland College, et al.</a>
On December 4, 1998, defendant-appellant, Don Hamlin, then the Co-Chief of Police for the City of Williamsburg, Kentucky (the "City"), arrested plaintiffs-appellees, Torre S. Crockett and DuShon L. Greene, both students at Cumberland College, for complicity in the rape of another Cumberland College student. Following their arrest, Crockett and Greene were detained in jail for ten days. Although th... More...
$0 (01-13-2003 - KY)Robert and Kimberly Hill v. Kentucky Lottery Corporation
Defamation and wrongful termination claims by husband and wife who were fired after being accused of forgery by the Kentucky Lottery Corporation. The plaintiffs claimed that they were authorized to use the credit card and that they used it for business purposes only.... More...
$4352316 (12-18-2002 - KY)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=02a0171p.06" target="_new">Conwood Company, L.P.; Conwood Sales Company, L.P. v. United States Tobacco Company, et al.</a>
Defendants-Appellants, United States Tobacco Company, United States Tobacco Sales and Marketing Company, Inc., United States Tobacco Manufacturing Company, Inc., and UST, Inc. (herein collectively referred to as "USTC") appeal from the March 29, 2000 order, after trial by jury, entering judgment in favor of Plaintiffs, Conwood Company, L.P. and Conwood Sales Company, L.P. ("Conwood") for Defendant... More...
$1050000000 (05-15-2002 - KY)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=02a0150p.06" target="_new">Gary L. Higgason, M.D., v. Robert F. Stephens, et al.</a>
Plaintiff, Gary L. Higgason, M.D., appeals from the district court's judgment entered on May 18, 2000, dismissing Plaintiff's civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Defendants, Robert F. Stephens, in his official capacity as Secretary of Justice Cabinet, Commonwealth of Kentucky and as acting Commissioner of the Kentucky State Police; Gary Rose, individually; Dennis Bennin... More...
$0 (05-01-2002 - KY)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=01a0156p.06" target="_new">Kennedy v. Mustaine</a>
Thomas Joseph Kennedy and his wife Diane Michelle Kennedy, appeal from the judgment entered by the district court on September 29, 1999, affirming the order entered by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky, granting summary judgment to Creditors-Appellees, Phillip B. Mustaine and his wife Phyllis J. Mustaine - Plaintiffs in the underlying adversary proceeding and ... More...
$0 (05-10-2001 - KY)Virginia Stringer, Reual Ed Angel, Donnie Brummett and Tina Sparks v. <a href="http://www.wal-mart.com">Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.</a>, et al.
Defamation - Plaintiffs claimed that they were slandered by Wal-Mart 's store manager Anthony Whitaker who fired byem for eating cashews and breath mints from package that had been damaged in shipping. All were confronted by management with videotaped evidence them eating the nuts and candy in 1995. Wal-Mart claimed that plaintiffs violated its pilferage policy. Plaintiffs claimed that they w... More...
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