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A Constitutional Amendment To Reform Kentucky’S Courts, Kurt X. Metzmeier
A Constitutional Amendment To Reform Kentucky’S Courts, Kurt X. Metzmeier
Kurt X. Metzmeier
Responding to a confused patchwork of trial courts with overlapping jurisdiction, uneven justice around the state, and a growing backlog of appellate cases, voters in Kentucky went to the polls on November 4, 1975, to approve a sweeping constitutional amendment that radically revised Kentucky’s court system. Although reformers had decried Kentucky’s confusing court system since the 1940s, the real roots of the revision of the judicial article can be found in the failed movement in the late 1960s to replace Kentucky’s 1891 constitution. Unbowed by the defeat, judicial reformers immediately set out to pass a separate amendment reforming the courts, …
History Of The Courts Of Kentucky, Kurt X. Metzmeier
History Of The Courts Of Kentucky, Kurt X. Metzmeier
Kurt X. Metzmeier
A survey of the history of Kentucky courts from the foundation of the commowealth in 1792 to the ratification in 1891 of the state's fourth constitution.