Category: Opinions and Editorials

Case Notes: Another Court of Appeals, Post-Shelton, “open and obvious”, slip and fall, jury question, question – Ward vs. JKP Investments LLC and James Kevin Porter, COA Published 1/23/2015

The title of this post says it all, and to put it in perspective, I will lead with Judge Maze’s dissent from the majority in this decision (Judges Vanmeter and Kramer (formerly Moore)).  I was present during the oral...

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Case Notes: A River Runs Through It in Jurisdiction issues in case involving medical treatment in Louisville but followup surgery across the Ohio River (Cooper vs. Dr. Ajith Nair, Kentuckiana Pain Specialists and Metro Specialty Surgery Center, COA NPO 1/9/2015)

  This decision highlights what the risks are when you select a Louisville physician who then ships you across the river to Indiana for surgery (where there is more favorable medical malpractice protection for the doctor...

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Op-Ed. And the hits just keep coming. Kentucky Social Security Disability Lawyer Eric Conn pleads the Fifth on Capital Hill hearings, and Justice Will Scott must explain his campaign finances.

A strong argument for a judicial appointment process over a judicial election process can be found in the recent stories regarding Kentucky lawyer Eric Conn and Supreme Court of Kentucky Justice Will T. Scott. Regardless of the...

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