Episode 6

"I just totally reject that." (Kentucky Evictions in a Pandemic)

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March 5th, 2021

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Kentucky's courts have prepared forms for landlords to help them prosecute evictions efficiently. They call landlords and their attorneys when they don't show up to court. Yet, when the Kentucky Equal Justice Center and other organizations ask for the Courts to provide necessary, important information to Kentuckians facing eviction, the Courts—top to bottom—say they can't because they have to be "impartial."

I just totally reject that.

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  • Update on our federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Jefferson District Court's eviction processes (contains links to briefing filed to date)
  • KEJC's letter to the Kentucky Supreme Court and Administrative Office of the Courts begging them to provide more information to people facing eviction
  • AOC's Response saying they couldn't provide any additional info because that would be "impartial"
  • Shinkle v. Turner: Kentucky Supreme Court case recognizing that the laws governing evictions in Kentucky are “at least a hundred years old and arguably [are] now ill-suited to the reality of modem landlord-tenant relations” and that these laws are "difficult to apply in the modem court system." Shinkle v. Turner, 496 S.W.3d 418, 420 (Ky. 2016).