Experience
Litigation Involving the Ownership of Hundreds of Undeveloped Farm Acres in Fayette County
The Firm successfully represented a well-known philanthropist in litigation involving the ownership of hundreds of undeveloped farm acres in Fayette County. Dinsmore obtained a judgment in Federal Court on behalf of a Trust, which judgment confirmed the Trust’s ownership of the property (against the claims of a local developer). A portion of the disputed property was recently sold by the Trust for $10 million and hundreds of acres remain owned and controlled by the Trust.
Pro Bono Case Representing Inmate in Excessive Force, Eighth Amendment to U.S. Constitution Violation
At the request of the court, Dinsmore accepted pro bono representation of a state prisoner who had filed a pro se action against three prison guards employed or formerly employed by Northpoint Training Center in Burgin, Kentucky. The prisoner claimed that the guards used excessive force on him during a 2012 training exercise, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The court permitted us to conduct limited discovery, and we prepared for trial on our client's claims against the guards. Two days before trial was scheduled to begin in federal district court in Lexington, Kentucky, the Commonwealth of Kentucky agreed to pay our client $10,000 and return 383 days of good time credit that he had lost.