Churchill Downs Inc. and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority have reached an agreement to resolve a dispute over unpaid regulatory fees, according to filings Tuesday.
Hardin County Sheriff Jon Ward's office "was trying to hide from the public that it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money to address officer wrongdoing," according to First Amendment Attorney Mike Abate.
Noel, a former Clark County sheriff and leader of Utica Township fire department, was found guilty of taking millions from the departments to fuel a lavish lifestyle.
The 2022 lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville, claimed Hardin County Sheriff's deputies used excessive force, lied about it and violated protocol by not having EMS take Alejandro Clarke Jr. to a hospital before he went into cardiac arrest.
Johnetta Carr claimed in a lawsuit filed Dec. 2020 that she was 16 when police accused her of murdering her boyfriend and that during the course of the investigation, detectives fabricated and coerced witnesses into saying that she was involved with his murder.
Amy Shoemaker claims she was demoted after she angered then-U of L President Neeli Bendapudi by telling police about an extortion attempt by then-assistant basketball coach Dino Gaudio.
Marlo Brown was pulled over for failing to signal while changing lanes, but the Louisville police officer who made the stop called Brown a “fu**ing piece of sh**.”
The lawsuit accusing police of acting on stale information and without probable cause when they raided a home in July 2019 to serve a warrant on an alleged drug suspect has been settled for $180,000.
Jarrus Ransom was arrested at a West Louisville Kroger at the intersection of South 27th Street and West Broadway in 2018. Body camera video appears to show officers dragging Ransom to the ground and then several punches thrown by one officer, Cory Evans.
Somewhere, schools will have to find a way to carve out a $20-$22 million piece of the pie for their athletes.