News & Media

• KJAB Attorneys Michael T. Leigh and Rick Adams win first case interpreting Kentucky’s statute banning contingent fees for influencing or lobbying Kentucky economic development officials
• KJAB Appellate and Healthcare Attorneys win Medicare Secondary Payer appeal in Second Circuit
• KJAB Appellate and Healthcare Attorneys obtain reversal of decision setting aside results of Kentucky’s Medicaid procurement
• Media Practice Group obtain dismissal of defamation case brought against Gannett Co. and its newspapers by Nicholas Sandmann
• Media Practice Group wins appeal prohibiting police departments from denying access to investigation records solely because the investigation is ongoing:
• Media Practice Group wins access to University of Louisville records related to NCAA investigation, including award of attorney’s fees
• Media Practice Group successfully defends dismissal of defamation claim brought by anonymous Covington Catholic students against journalists and academics
• Media Practice Group successfully defends dismissal of defamation claim brought against newspapers and TV stations for covering federal criminal trial and sentencing
• Media and Appellate Practice Attorneys Persuade Sixth Circuit to Affirm Dismissal of Copyright Claims brought Against the Courier Journal.
• Firm Attorneys Obtain Injunction Stopping Secret Meetings Between Louisville Mayor and Metro Council
• Firm Attorneys Prevail in Long-Running Fight to Open up City of Louisville’s bid for Amazon H2Q Headquarters
• Firm Attorneys Successfully Argue Against City of Louisville’s Request for Injunction to Prohibit Closed-Door Testimony on Breonna Taylor case
• Attorney Michael Abate Argues Case for Courier Journal Seeking Disclosure of the Breonna Taylor Investigative File
• KJAB attorneys obtain permanent injunction against enforcement of state statutes regulating the blocking of railroad crossings
• KJAB media group strikes historic deal to resolve multiple Open Records cases against the Bevin Administration
• Firm Chair David Kaplan named to Governor-Elect Andy Beshear’s Transition Team for the Budget
• Attorney Cassie Chambers represents pro bono client in key Kentucky case seeking to establish that indigent persons may obtain fee waivers in expungement actions
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird’s media practice wins Attorney General appeal concerning the withholding and deletion of LMPD records
• Kentucky Supreme Court denies review of Open Records dispute over shareholder names in Kentucky-backed Braidy Industries
• Kentucky Supreme Court declines review of petition seeking to shield Purdue Pharma depositions and documents
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird attorney advocates for reform of expungement law
• Kentucky Supreme Court reverses lower courts in ruling that arbitrator must decide threshold question of arbitrability by virtue of AAA rules, in case handed by Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP
• Kentucky Court of Appeals unanimously reverses multi-million dollar verdict against firm client in appeal argued by firm Partner Mike Abate
• Kentucky Press Association and Associated Press create new Freedom of Information Award in honor of Firm Attorney Jon Fleischaker
• Louisville Business First profiles firm Partner Mike Abate and the national reach of the Firm’s litigation practice
• Kentucky Court of Appeals affirms ruling that Bevin Administration must disclose the names of the investors in Braidy Industries
• Michael Abate speaks at leading Managed Care litigation conference on health plans’ involvement in opioid litigation
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird attorneys featured in Columbia Journalism Review story about defending student journalists in lawsuits brought by their own universities
• Kentucky Court of Appeals rules for student newspapers in long-running dispute over access to faculty discipline records
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Summary Judgment on Class and Individual Claims in Favor of Kaplan Johnson Client Voya Insurance and Annuity Company
• Court orders health cabinet to turn over investigation records—and pay requester’s legal fees
• Court finds willful violations of Open Records law by Labor Cabinet
• Chief Justice Minton Appoints Clark Johnson to Business Court Advisory Committee
• Court of Appeals affirms order unsealing deposition of key Purdue Pharma executive in Open Records case argued by Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorney Jon Fleischaker
• Court of Appeals Upholds jury verdict for fraud and conversion obtained by Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorneys David Kaplan
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP Media Law Attorneys Jon Fleischaker and Michael Abate sound the alarm on proposed new legislation that would have eviscerated Kentucky’s Open Records Law
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorneys Jon Fleischaker, Michael Abate, and Andrea Aikin obtain first-in-the-nation order requiring a city to disclose its bid to land the Amazon HQ2 Project
• Franklin Circuit Court reaffirms public’s right to access records containing allegations of sexual misconduct by public employees in case litigated by Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorneys Jon Fleischaker and Michael Abate
• Bevin Administration sues Courier-Journal in open records case litigated by Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorneys Jon Fleischaker and Michael Abate
• Franklin Circuit Court rules Bevin Administration must disclose the names of the investors in state-sponsored Braidy Industries and pay attorneys’ fees for willfully withholding that information
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP represents college journalists sued by their own universities over access to sexual misconduct allegations against professors and staff
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorneys successfully quashed unprecedented search warrant and subpoena issued to newsroom for video footage
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP Media Law Attorneys quoted in special investigation into public access to government records in Kentucky
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP Media Law attorneys Jon Fleischaker, Michael Abate, and Casey Hinkle obtain emergency order requiring court to open records and proceedings in case concerning tragic school shooting in Marshall County
• District Court rules in favor of Planned Parenthood in case assisted by pro bono attorneys with Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP
• David Kaplan and Mike Abate represent judicial candidate in case of first impression
• Jon Fleischaker leaves Dinsmore & Shohl to join Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP
• Attorney Jon Fleischaker lend name to fundraising efforts for new Family Drug Court
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorney David Kaplan comments on community impact of $150 million addition to the endowment of the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence
• Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP attorney David Kaplan argues open records case for Pike County in the Kentucky Supreme Court