Justin Schaefer and Christopher Jacovitch recently obtained a dismissal of a plaintiff’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 excessive force claims brought against various officials and employees of the Floyd County, Indiana Jail in a case brought in federal court in the Southern District of Indiana. The Plaintiff claimed that he had been subjected to excessive force…
Read articleIn December 2019, Justin Schaefer obtained summary judgment in the Henderson Circuit Court on claims against the City of Henderson and the City of Henderson Civil Service Commission. The claims arose after an employee was terminated, following a hearing, from her position as a 911 operator due to allegations that she was intoxicated on the…
Read articleIn October 2019, Terri E. Boroughs and Chapin Elizabeth Scheumann obtained Summary Judgment on behalf of a hospital in a medical negligence and vicarious liability matter. The Plaintiff claimed that a traveling nurse who cared for her during her hospital admission had given her medication prescribed for other patients in order to incapacitate her and…
Read articleIn October 2019, Justin Schaefer and Christopher Jacovitch obtained a dismissal with prejudice of a plaintiff’s 28 U.S.C. § 1983 excessive force and failure to intervene claims brought against the City of Henderson, Kentucky, Sergeant Stuart O’Nan, Officer Kyle Stone, and Officer Cody Griffith. The claims arose after the plaintiff was shot by an officer…
Read articleIn October 2019, Deanna M. Marzian Tucker and Matthew Londergan successfully obtained a defense verdict at trial for their clients, a local restoration company and its employee. The Plaintiff claimed that the employee backed into her car while driving a van owned by his employer. The Defendants denied an accident occurred. The Plaintiff alleged a…
Read articleIn September 2019, Justin Schaefer and Chapin Elizabeth Scheumann successfully obtained a dismissal with prejudice of a Plaintiff’s appeal of an award of summary judgment, which Mr. Schaefer and Mrs. Scheumann had obtained on behalf of a private utility company sued in Clark County (IN) Circuit Court for negligence arising out a trip and fall…
Read articleSchiller Barnes Maloney PLLC is pleased to announce that Blake V. Edwards has been named partner at the firm. Mr. Edwards joined the firm in 2011 after practicing at a civil defense firm in Lexington, Kentucky. His practice areas include trucking and automobile negligence, wrongful death, real estate disputes, construction defect litigation, products liability, and…
Read articleThe Legal Food Frenzy helped support another area of need in the Louisville community – serving those who are food-insecure. Roughly one out of every six adults and one out of every five children in Kentucky lack enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle. Feeding Kentucky’s food banks provide food and quality services to those…
Read articleIn May 2019, Blake Edwards and Kelsey Caudill obtained Summary Judgment in Jessamine Circuit Court on behalf of a construction company that was sued by a subcontractor’s employee, who was injured while working on the construction company’s premises. The Court ruled that the construction company was the injured worker’s “statutory employer,” and was therefore entitled…
Read articleSchiller Barnes Maloney PLLC was one of 10 Louisville-area law firms to throw gutter balls for a brighter future for our city’s youth in the Legal Bowl for Kids’ Sake event — the largest charitable campaign held yearly for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana organization. This year, the Legal Bowl alone raised over…
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