The court challenge to the city’s dangerous dog ordnance, based on the plaintiffs’ contention that it was enacted unfairly, has been denied by Jefferson Circuit Judge Martin F. McDonald.
The ruling leaves in place the current dog ordinance, enacted late last year.
Bottom line: the dog ordinance enacted by the Metro Council withstood the court challenge […]

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Revealing Nothing on New: Attorney Jon Fleischaker, representing the Courier-Journal, says he’s confident that the sealing of evidence in the Cecil New case by Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman will be overturned on appeal. He told me that he has a strong case, that the 3,000 pages of testimony should be made available to the newspaper because […]

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Done with Decker: Jack Conway has finished up with the charlatans who ran Decker College here. Students who foolishly incurred debt, believing the recruiting pitches from school officials that made them think they’d become accomplished electricians and plumbers, at least don’t have to pay back their loans. When I wrote about this in LEO two […]

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That’s right, Judge Martin McDonald has thrown out the city’s troubled dog ordinance, citing violations of open meetings laws and unleashing a whole new round of dog-related news on the city.
For details, see the C-J account.
The action apparently leaves the city without an active ordinance, and it’s likely, just as was done with the overturning […]

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Here’s some things catching our attention, and some good work we’re borrowing from our Page One site:
Un-Leash: We’ve been trying to keep up with the play-by-play on the Metro Council’s dog ordinance, and believe it to be seriously flawed. Also a serious waste of the city’s time and resources. That’s the way we felt before […]

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