Cases Hot Off The Press
HERALD LEADER ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OPINION AUGUST 2016: In the newest round of efforts to shed light on the activities of UK, the Attorney General issued an August 31, 2016 (16-ORD-193), opinion addressing the refusal of UK to provide documents in response to a Herald Leader Open Records request for matters involving the Hazard cardiology practice […]
Federal Update
FEDERAL WAGE-AND-HOUR RULES CHANGES – An important change in the federal wage-and-hour rules becomes effective on December 1, 2016. The new rule recently promulgated by the Department of Labor will increase the salary level from $455 per week ($23,660 annually) to $913 per week (or $47,476 annually). Additional changes were made to the salary rules […]
Veithch v. Public Protection Cabinet
The Franklin Circuit Court again ruled in favor of John Veitch in his claims against the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission related to penalties imposed on him as Chief State Steward for his actions at the LIFE AT TEN race. In its August 23, 2016, Opinion and Order, the Court reverses and remands the most recent […]
NURSING HOME WRONGFUL DEATH FILING JULY 2016
Miller, Griffin & Marks, PSC filed an action in the Madison Circuit Court in July 2016 alleging the wrongful death of Donald Shelton. Named in the suit as defendant IS Madison Health and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, Kentucky. Read more.
2017 Mike Meuser’s speaking schedule:
Mike is scheduled to speak at the National Equine Law Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. Previously, in 2015 Mike spoke to the Commercial Breeders’ Association and at the Annual Convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) in Las Vegas on pre purchase examinations and auction sale radiograph reports. On February 5, 2016, he spoke […]
Paul Miller Ford, Inc. v. Garrison, (2015-CA-38, Clay Circuit Court)
Car buyer demanded rescission of the purchase transaction but refused to return vehicle. Rather than returning the vehicle to implement the rescission request, buyer then filed suit in circuit court in her home county, not the county in which the dealership has its principal place of business, with a barebones complaint that did not take […]
Vescio v. Darnell, Fayette Circuit Court, 99-CI-2531, COA 2013-CA-189 (January 29, 2016)
An uphill neighbor focused and directed storm water runoff into his downhill neighbor’s yard, garage and house. In 2010 a jury found against the uphill neighbor and awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages to the downhill neighbor. The trial court also awarded recovery to downhill neighbor of some of their attorneys’ […]
Paisley v. Talley, 2015 WL 7051307, January 29, 2016, Fayette Circuit Court, 4th Division
Applying rules of proportionate reimbursement for payments made during the course of the (unmarried relationship) joint tenancy. Read more ›
GRAHAM MARKS, Much Ado About Nothing: Kentuckians’ Right to Hunt, Fish, and Harvest Wildlife, KY. L.J. BLOG (Jan. 13, 2016)
Read more on Graham’s recent work.
Robinson v. Robinson, (2015-CA-915, Fayette Circuit Court, Family Division)
A divorce action concluded over a decade earlier gave rise to an effort to hold ex-husband in contempt. The claimed contempt arose from his conveyance of marital real property during the divorce as part of the redistribution of marital assets ordered by the Divorce Decree. Ex-wife contended by motion practice initiated in the long-closed divorce […]
