Issues involve the validity of an informed consent signed by a participant in a Phase I clinical trial. Oral arguments heard on March 19, 2021.
Issues in this case, arising out of the death of a five-year-old by drowning in a hotel indoor swimming pool, involve the propriety and amount of punitive damages against the hotel found 35 percent responsible for the death as well as the propriety of the partial retrial of compensatory damages as the result of no award for loss of earning capacity, parental consortium, and pain and suffering. Oral arguments heard on March 19, 2021.
At issue is whether a Louisville police officer is entitled to qualified official immunity when the victims injured in a high-speed chase allege that the officer’s decision to give chase violated the police department’s pursuit procedures, which prohibit pursuit of non-felons, and require officers to consider a list of factors prior to commencing a pursuit. Oral arguments heard on March 18, 2021.
At issue is issue is whether an amendment to KRS Chapter 109, which applies only to consolidated local governments constituted impermissible “special legislation” which was violative of the Kentucky Constitution. The amendment would allow any city in Jefferson County to control its own method of solid waste management. Oral arguments heard on March 18, 2021.
At issue is whether denial of a defendant’s up-the-ladder immunity defense under the Worker’s Compensation Act is appealable on an interlocutory basis. Oral arguments heard on March 17, 2021.
At issue is whether the “Good Samaritan” exemption applies when a 911 caller reports not specifically a “drug overdose” but rather an unknown running vehicle parked in her driveway with two non-responsive occupants. In Craig Milner v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, the issue is whether the “Good Samaritan” exemption applies when a 911 caller reports an unconscious individual slumped over the driver’s seat of a running vehicle with an open door in a retail parking lot. Oral arguments heard on March 17, 2021.
At issue is whether a state university faculty contract was merely “implied” or was included within the waiver of governmental immunity contained in the Kentucky Model Procurement Code at KRS 45A.245. Oral arguments heard on Feb. 12, 2021.
At issue is whether an oral agreement to settle an underlying tort claim not reduced to writing triggers the statute of limitations for filing a third-party bad faith claim. Oral arguments heard on Feb. 12, 2021.
Issues presented include the impact of a dismissal of a classified employee with status by an individual lacking authority to take personnel actions. Oral arguments heard on Feb. 11, 2021.
At issue is whether an exception under KRE 412 allows the admissibility of sexual activity of a victim after an alleged rape and prior to report of the crime to police. Oral arguments heard on Feb. 11, 2021.