Litigation

The Winchester Sun notified the local parks board Thursday of what the newspaper believes to be a violation of the state Open Meetings Act when the board conducted a closed session Monday. Before voting 4-2 in open session to allow the Winchester...

Underestimated allies of freedom are judges who uphold constitutional government and smack down regulatory agencies when they cross the line. In recent months, we’ve had some stellar rulings by fair-and-balanced judges. We’ve also witnessed...

The Winchester-Clark County Parks and Recreation Board said it received several specific legal threats about allowing alcohol sales in Lykins Park, which justified a closed discussion of the matter during a meeting, according to a letter sent to the...

It was only 18 months ago that Bill Noelker hung out his shingle to practice law and already he has the case of a lifetime. “This case is why I went to law school. This gets me excited,” Noelker said last week in his second-floor office...

STANFORD — Lincoln County Jailer David Gooch is going after those he claims have defamed him by posting unkind and untrue comments about him anonymously on the local gossip website Topix. Gooch filed a lawsuit earlier this month in Lincoln Circuit...

LANCASTER — The son of a Berea couple killed last summer in a car crash has filed a lawsuit against two Lancaster businesses that allegedly sold alcohol to the driver of the vehicle that slammed into their car. In a complaint filed last week in...

STANFORD — Lincoln County Judge-Executive Jim Adams has issued a public apology for authorizing the county road department to work on a church parking lot. Monday, at a special meeting of the Lincoln County Fiscal Court, Adams read a letter of...

Monday, at a special-called meeting of the Lincoln County  Fiscal Court, Judge Executive Jim Adams read a letter of apology addressed to the citizens of Lincoln County for his unilateral decision to use county workers and equipment to grade, gravel and...

When the parks board entered into closed session Sept. 12, it did so legally, the Office of Attorney General ruled. The attorney general ruled in favor of the board because specific threats were cited in the board’s response to The Winchester Sun&...

LEXINGTON — A former inmate at the Lincoln County Regional Jail has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Jailer David Gooch’s denial of proper medical treatment resulted in permanent debilitating injuries. Marty R. Stevens, who is now...

In the middle of the night a little more than a year ago, Michael P. Durham woke up in his Moreland home, popped a couple of night-time pain relievers and tried to go back to sleep. A short time later, however, Durham “began experiencing...

A new regulation regarding extensions of subdivision plans is “profoundly unjust,” an attorney told planners Tuesday night. The Jessamine County-City of Wilmore Joint Planning Commission added language to its subdivision regulations in June...