The constitutionality of several Kentucky campaign finance laws was debated Thursday morning before a Sixth Circuit panel, with the state’s attorney general arguing they are necessary to maintain citizens’ confidence in the government.
Read moreA male student claims in a federal lawsuit that a Kentucky school board allows girls, but not boys, to play on basketball teams at multiple grade levels.
Read moreA group of protesters removed from a country ham breakfast at the 2015 Kentucky State Fair challenged their arrests as unconstitutional before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit ruled Monday that utilities in Tennessee and Kentucky did not violated the Clean Water Act when contaminents in coal ash ponds at their facilities leached in the local groundwater.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump by a group of protesters forcibly removed from a Kentucky campaign rally, finding that Trump’s call to “get ‘em out of here” did not rise to the level of inciting a riot.
Read moreA Kentucky lawyer who masterminded a $550 million Social Security fraud scheme and escaped from home arrest across the Mexican border was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.
Read moreA former Kentucky Democratic Party chairman and a party strategist were indicted Friday on claims that they made illegal corporate contributions to the failed U.S. Senate campaign of the chairman’s daughter, who now serves as Kentucky’s secretary of state.
Read moreKentucky Governor Matt Bevin does not have legal standing to sue Medicaid recipients who challenged the state’s requirements that people work to receive benefits, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed Rick Pitino’s lawsuit blaming the NCAA recruitment scandal on Adidas, ruling Tuesday that the former University of Louisville men’s basketball coach and apparel company must resolve their dispute in arbitration.
Read moreTwo clean water cases involving coal-fired power plants in Kentucky and Tennessee, and their impact on the surrounding environment, were argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday.
Read moreAn attorney for Kentucky argued Wednesday before a Sixth Circuit panel to have the state’s fetal-heartbeat abortion law reinstated, after a federal judge declared the law unconstitutional last year.
Read moreFive former University of Louisville basketball players sued the NCAA on Wednesday, claiming it cannot revoke their 2013 national championship because of a prostitution scandal that left the program in tatters.
Read moreNoting a “stunning lack” of consideration in Kentucky’s proposed new Medicaid plan, a federal judge on Friday blocked a first-of-its-kind bid by the state to tie Medicaid benefits to work requirements.
Read moreSeven development districts claim in court that the Kentucky Department of Local Government is illegally withholding hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for rural jobs programs, public safety and elderly care to fill a gap left by a budget shortfall.
Read moreA distiller’s use of the Old Taylor name to pinpoint the location at which it will create a new bourbon does not infringe on a competitor’s trademark and falls under the fair-use defense, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe use of the trademark Old Taylor Distillery – the namesake of E.H. Taylor, father of the modern bourbon industry – was contested before a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday morning in a dispute dubbed by one of the judges as the start of the “Bourbon War.”
Read moreThe Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed a magistrate judge President Donald Trump nominated to serve on a federal court in Kentucky.
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