Thursday - Nov. 30, 2000

• Elizabethtown - woman gets probation, fine for mail fraud
• Elizabethtown -man could land in jail over neglected property
• Elizabethtown - former employees file sexual harrasment suit against Bluegrass ChallaNGe Academy

Wednesday - Nov. 29, 2000

Tuesday - Nov. 28, 2000

Monday - Nov. 27, 2000

Wednesday - Nov. 22, 2000

• Talks end in killing of black motorist
• INS arrests 14 Hispanics at courthouse in Monticello
• Authorities tap into DNA database for unsolved crimes

Tuesday - Nov. 21, 2000

• Police improprieties alleged in Owensboro
• Patrols will target speeding, drunken driving, lack of child restraints
• Scooter on risky-toys list
• On danger list

Monday - Nov. 20, 2000

Fri.,  Nov. 17, 2000

Meadows was convicted of first-degree assault and first-degree criminal abuse and sentenced to a total of 30 years in prison, the maximum for the two charges.  Meadows could now be charged with murder in Brook's death.

Thurs.,  Nov. 16, 2000

Wed,  Nov. 15, 2000

Nathaniel Adkins, 18, entered the plea in Elliott Circuit Court, where he was arraigned on charges of murder and tampering with physical evidence - killing his mother and concealing her body in a crude burial mound.  Hers body was found under a mound of dirt on an embankment a few yards from the house she and her son shared.

Tue. Nov. 14, 2000

Mon. Nov. 13, 2000

The girls get to join the National Honor Society and ACLU has $70,000 in legal fees and costs.  Do the math.  At $100 per hour that is 700 hours of work or nearly 14 weeks of full-time work. At $200 per hour - 350 hours of work. Don't these people know what they are doing?  Can't they do it for less time?  What about the civil liberties of the tax payers paying these extortionate fees?  And did the federal judge grant an injunction early on in this case???? Sounds like a good open records request to me.  If this is the "compromise", I wonder what the submitted fee was......  

And what about the part of the settlement requiring the board for the next five years, report to the ACLU Women's Rights Project the number of eligible, but non-selected, candidates for the National Honor Society for whom sexual activity was a consideration.  Now how is that going to be enforced and who is really going to ask high schoolers their sexual activity.  Would the ACLU take on an action to protect minors from being asked or even having their personal sexual activities placed under the microscope by a public organization.  I believe protecting our civil liberties is important but unreasonably high legal fees and violating the civil rights of others to monitor the protection of the civil rights of a few seems to be a violation of their charter.  Don't you think.

David Friedman and the ACLU   :^(

Alma McGowen, now 19, said that despite her repeated complaints, Spencer County school administrators did nothing to stop the harassment, which began in the 6th grade and persisted through middle school.

In 1996, Oliver H. Barber Jr., McGowen's attorney, sued the Spencer County Board of Education in U.S. District Court in Louisville. The suit was filed under Title IX, which requires schools to provide equal opportunities for boys and girls, and said McGowen was deprived of her right to public education.

The lawsuit was one of the first of its kind in the country, and the legal theory has since been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a similar sexual-harassment case in Georgia.

Attaboy Oli Barber.  This is for you in truly protecting an individual's rights day to day and when it counts in taking a cutting edge lawsuit.  :^)

Julianne Boise sued Danville Hotel Corporation and H and W Management Co. Inc. after she was "severely and permanently injured" by exposure to carbon monoxide poisoning at the Holiday Inn Express on Jan. 28, 1997, according to court documents.

An inmate in Montgomery County was arrested Thursday for allegedly agreeing to be a hit man targeting Circuit Judge Bill Mains, Commonwealth's Attorney George Moore and his family.

Amos Stiltner, 49, of Grundy, Va., was charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Each count is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Threats apparently had been made against Mains and Moore during a high-profile drug case in Montgomery County.

Fri. - November 10, 2000  

Thurs.. - November 9, 2000

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld a $2 million verdict, finding the existence of jury issues on the contract claim did not preclude the bad faith claim.

"[A]lthough elements of a claim may be 'fairly debatable,' an insurer must debate the matter fairly," the Supreme Court said in its Oct. 26 split decision, which affirmed the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

The high court found sufficient evidence from which reasonable jurors could conclude that Farmland Insurance Co.'s investigation, evaluation and processing of Lemuel and Virginia Johnson's fire damage claim was unreasonable and that it knew its conduct was unreasonable.

Wed. - November 8, 2000  

• District Court judges - Stringer, Stengel, Crosby win
• Merger wins with solid majority
• State
  • Supreme Court - Keller wins BIG
  • Dry vote
  • Commonwealth attorney
  • Circuit court judges

• An attorneys group dismissed an ethics complaint against a Hardin County district judge on the eve of the election. 
• The Kentucky State Bar Association's Inquiry Commission investigated District Judge John Simcoe for his prosecution last year of several criminal cases involving an Elizabethtown man charged with harassing a woman. At the time, Simcoe, who was appointed judge in December 1999, was a county attorney.
• The commission dropped the grievance Monday against Simcoe, who is a candidate in today's election to retain his judge's seat. Simcoe said he was not surprised by the outcome.