DISCRETIONARY REVIEW GRANTED 8/21/2019 

Louisville MSD v. Hill, 2018-SC-491-DG
Kentucky Whistleblower Act. Employer. Gray-Area Entities. Comair Analysis. Issues include whether Louisville MSD is an employer under the Whistleblower Act. 

Northern Kentucky Area Development District v. Wilson, 2018-SC-665-DG Kentucky Whistleblower Act. Employer. Gray-Area Entities. Comair Analysis. Issues include whether NKADD is an employer under the Whistleblower Act. 

Howard v. Big Sandy Area Development District, 2018-SC-601-DG Governmental Immunity. Comair Analysis. Integral State Government Function. Issues include whether BSADD performs an integral state government function, entitling it to governmental immunity under Comair. 

Phillips v. Rosquist, 2018-SC-671-DG
Real Property. Judicial Recusal. Issues involve an appellate panel member’s refusal to recuse from a property dispute in the judge’s residential subdivision. 

Commonwealth v. Hess, 2019-SC-130-DG
Criminal Law. Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine. Does the constitutional right to appeal preclude application of the fugitive disentitlement doctrine when a paroled appellant absconds from supervision during the pendency of an appeal from an order revoking probation? 

I 2019-SC-192-DG
Sovereign Immunity. Waiver. Insurance. Retained Limits. KRS 67.180. The issue is whether a governmental entity which purchases a retained limits policy is obligated to incur the costs of defense of claims made under that policy, where there is no duty to defend under that policy, and such a cost is one which a sovereign immunity defense seeks to avoid. 

DISCRETIONARY REVIEW GRANTED WITHOUT ORAL ARGUMENT 8/21/2019 

Deal v. Commonwealth, 2019-SC-175-DG
Criminal Law. Presumption of Innocence. The issue to be decided is whether it is error to introduce into evidence a video of a defendant showing them in jail clothing and handcuffs during a statement made to police. 

Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd & Conway, P.S.C. v. Commonwealth ex rel. Landrum, 2019-SC-197-DG and Commonwealth ex rel. Beshear v. Commonwealth ex rel. Landrum, 2019-SC-199-DG
Contingent Fee Contracts. Enforceability. Model Procurement Code. Equity. The issue to be resolved is whether a law firm, retained by the Commonwealth pursuant to a contingent fee contract is entitled to payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to the original contract properly executed under the Model Procurement Code, the term of which had expired before the settlement of the litigation was reached. A secondary issue is whether equity demanded that the law firm be paid in accord with the original signed agreement even though the term of the contract had expired before the litigation was ended.