Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Department of Agriculture v. Vinson
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided October 26, 2000No. 1999-SC-0570-DGPublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.
This appeal is from an opinion of the Court of Appeals which affirmed a judgment of the circuit court awarding a total of $1 million in punitive damages and a permanent injunction against the Department of Agriculture for violations of the Kentucky Whistleblower Act, KRS 61.101 et seq.
The questions presented are whether the Whistleblower Act is unconstitutionally vague; whether the plaintiffs are entitled to punitive damages in the absence of actual compensatory damages; whether it was error to grant a jury trial; and whether it was error to apply the amended version of…
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