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Courts of Kentucky include: Kentucky Court of Justice. Under an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution passed by the state's voters in 1975, [1] judicial power in Kentucky is "vested exclusively in one Court of Justice", divided into the following: [2] Kentucky Supreme Court [3] Kentucky Court of Appeals [4] Kentucky Circuit Courts (57 circuits ...
In 2019, the Kentucky Supreme Court created a Business Court Docket Pilot project in the Jefferson County Circuit Court, effective January 1, 2020. [1] Circuit judges serve in eight-year terms. There are 57 circuits, which may have one or more judges, depending on the population and docket size.
The United States District Court for the District of Kentucky was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At the time, Kentucky was not yet a state, but was within the territory of the state of Virginia .
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Kentucky.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
The judicial branch of Kentucky is called the Kentucky Court of Justice [8] and comprises courts of limited jurisdiction called District Courts; courts of general jurisdiction called Circuit Courts; specialty courts such as Drug Court [9] and Family Court; [10] an intermediate appellate court, the Kentucky Court of Appeals; and a court of last ...
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s 2021 “decision” to ignore the expansive definition of the term “public record” — and to focus exclusively on those records in the public ...
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Current districts of the district courts. Number of judges in each district. 1 2 3 5 17. First District – Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, and Hickman counties; Second District – McCracken county; Third District – Christian county; Fourth District – Hopkins county