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Kentucky Law Survey: Evidence, Richard H. Underwood
Kentucky Law Survey: Evidence, Richard H. Underwood
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Kentucky courts faced a number of significant issues in evidence law during the Survey period. Several decisions dealt with character evidence and problems arising from the admission of evidence of prior criminal acts of the accused, either as substantive evidence or for impeachment. This Survey will highlight these cases and to a lesser degree discuss cases on hearsay admissions, opinion, the Kentucky Dead Man Statute and privilege, which also were decided during the Survey period.
Economical Litigation: Kentucky's Answer To High Costs And Delay In Civil Litigation, C. Lynn Oliver
Economical Litigation: Kentucky's Answer To High Costs And Delay In Civil Litigation, C. Lynn Oliver
Kentucky Law Journal
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Feticide: Murder In Kentucky?, Perry Mack Bentley
Feticide: Murder In Kentucky?, Perry Mack Bentley
Kentucky Law Journal
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Kentucky Law Survey: Corporations, Willburt D. Ham
Kentucky Law Survey: Corporations, Willburt D. Ham
Kentucky Law Journal
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Kentucky's New Abortion Law: Searching For The Outer Limits Of Permissible Regulation, Keith Moorman
Kentucky's New Abortion Law: Searching For The Outer Limits Of Permissible Regulation, Keith Moorman
Kentucky Law Journal
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Inheritance Rights Of Illegitimate Children In Kentucky: A Need For Reform, J. Clarke Keller
Inheritance Rights Of Illegitimate Children In Kentucky: A Need For Reform, J. Clarke Keller
Kentucky Law Journal
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State Action Immunity And Preemption In Antitrust Challenges To State Pricing Laws: Alcoholic Beverage Control Board V. Taylor Drug Stores, Inc., Randy Donald Shaw
State Action Immunity And Preemption In Antitrust Challenges To State Pricing Laws: Alcoholic Beverage Control Board V. Taylor Drug Stores, Inc., Randy Donald Shaw
Kentucky Law Journal
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Rethinking Jurisdiction And Notice In Kentucky, John R. Leathers
Rethinking Jurisdiction And Notice In Kentucky, John R. Leathers
Kentucky Law Journal
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Judicial V. Legislative Power In Kentucky: A "Comity" Of Errors, Douglas L. Mcswain
Judicial V. Legislative Power In Kentucky: A "Comity" Of Errors, Douglas L. Mcswain
Kentucky Law Journal
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A Comparative Negligence Checklist To Avoid Future Unnecessary Litigation, John M. Rogers, Randy Donald Shaw
A Comparative Negligence Checklist To Avoid Future Unnecessary Litigation, John M. Rogers, Randy Donald Shaw
Kentucky Law Journal
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Kentucky Tort Law: Defamation And The Right Of Privacy, Richard C. Ausness
Kentucky Tort Law: Defamation And The Right Of Privacy, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This book review examines Kentucky Tort Law: Defamation and the Right of Privacy by David A. Elder, which was published in 1983.
Kentucky Law Survey: Domestic Relations, Louise Everett Graham
Kentucky Law Survey: Domestic Relations, Louise Everett Graham
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In the decade since Kentucky's adoption of the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, the state's courts have faced the task of interpreting it in domestic relations litigation. This past year was no exception. A number of problems before Kentucky courts were recurrent issues. For example, the divisibility of educational degrees acquired by one spouse again required court assessment. Similarly, issues surrounding both maintenance and child support reappeared. These recurrent issues, along with new issues requiring court solution, heavily burdened trial and appellate courts. This Survey will discuss court resolutions of significant problems in the areas of marital property, maintenance and …
Kentucky Law Survey: Criminal Procedure, William H. Fortune
Kentucky Law Survey: Criminal Procedure, William H. Fortune
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This Survey covers significant criminal procedure decisions of the Kentucky appellate courts for the period July 1, 1980, to July 1, 1982. It does not include cases construing the penal code or noteworthy decisions in the Kentucky law of evidence. The author has selected the most important criminal procedure cases for treatment in the text; a number of significant cases are summarized in footnotes.
A Comparative Negligence Checklist To Avoid Future Unnecessary Litigation, John M. Rogers, Randy Donald Shaw
A Comparative Negligence Checklist To Avoid Future Unnecessary Litigation, John M. Rogers, Randy Donald Shaw
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Systems of comparative negligence, whereby the negligence of a plaintiff serves to reduce rather than to preclude tort recovery in negligence, have been adopted in thirty-nine states. The common law rule that contributory negligence is an absolute bar to recovery is still the law in Kentucky, although modified by the doctrine of "last clear chance." Kentucky may soon join the trend toward comparative negligence, however. In the last legislative session, bills to adopt comparative negligence were introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. A hearing on this subject was held by the Interim Judiciary and Civil Procedure …
Surface Mining In Kentucky, Carolyn S. Bratt
Surface Mining In Kentucky, Carolyn S. Bratt
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In 1977, Congress enacted the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. The Act, designed to protect the environment and society from the adverse effects of surface coal mining and to insure uniform minimum nationwide regulatory standards, established a comprehensive regulatory scheme for surface mining and reclamation operations of both federal and non-federal lands within the United States.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation within the Department of the Interior, is charged with administering and implementing the Act. Implementation is divided into two stages. During the initial, or interim phase, all surface mining …