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Kentucky v. Wasson, 842 S.W.2d 487 (Ky. 1992), [1] was a 1992 Kentucky Supreme Court decision striking down the state's anti sodomy laws that criminalized sexual activity between two people of the same-sex, holding that this was a violation of both the equal protection of the laws and the right to privacy.
Court records detail multiple examples of torment inside the home, including the child's hand forced on a stovetop, sexual abuse involving "pliers/vise grips" and confinement to a gun safe which ...
Kentucky, and the parallel case Wilkins v. Missouri, the Supreme Court affirmed the capital punishments handed down in lower courts. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that neither Stanford or Wilkins asserted that the punishment was cruel or unusual at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted (common law at the time set the ...
Case name Citation Date decided N.Y. State Club Ass'n, Inc. v. City of New York: 487 U.S. 1: 1988: Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp. 487 U.S. 22
Kelly Vanderkooi, who was previously indicted on 21 counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child 12 or under and 10 counts of fourth-degree assault (child abuse), now faces new 16 charges of ...
An administrative regulation that went into effect Aug. 30 required school districts to create a policy on the use of corporal punishment in schools, the advocacy group Prevent Child Abuse ...
The USA Supreme Court in a 5–4 judgment penned by Justice Anthony Kennedy on June 25, 2008, prohibited executions of individuals convicted of child rape: "the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child, despite the horrendous nature of the crime." Kennedy reserved capital punishment only "for crimes that involve a ...
Three people are facing abuse charges after an investigation into a western Kentucky boarding school. ... Kelly Vanderkooi is facing 21 counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child 12 or under ...