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Isaac Sutherland, left, and Mallory Hudson answer questions during the SGA Presidential and Vice Presidential Debate on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, at the Gatton Student Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Travis Fannon | Staff

SGA court finds Sutherland/Hudson violated election rules, Sutherland will appeal

Kendall Staton, News Editor March 23, 2023

The UK Student Government Association (SGA) Supreme Court published a slip opinion on the UKSGA website, detailing what caused the disqualification of Isaac Sutherland and Mallory Hudson from the student...

KERNEL EDITORIAL SIG

Three lawsuits. Two years of legal proceedings. One race for transparency.

August 21, 2018

If you’ve ever run a marathon, you know the hardest part is the first six miles. The Kentucky Kernel is still running in the first six miles of our race, so to speak, as we continue to fight a lawsuit...

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(Update) Behind closed doors: As the courts have trudged along for more than a year, experts worry that the public’s right to know suffers

Rick Childress September 8, 2017

UPDATE: UK spokesman, Jay Blanton, has pointed out that this article lacks substantial representation of UK's side of this issue. For the sake of fairness, quotes, from Blanton representing the university,...

Attorney General Andy Beshear announced that his office would seek to intervene in the lawsuit between UK and The Kentucky Kernel, Wednesday, Sept. 7. 

Beshear intervening in WKU lawsuit

Bailey Vandiver March 23, 2017

Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear filed a motion to intervene in Western Kentucky University’s lawsuit against the Kentucky Kernel and the College Heights Herald, according to a press release from...

Attorney General Andy Beshear

Kentucky Attorney General sides with Kernel in lawsuits

News Staff March 21, 2017

Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear visited the Kentucky Kernel office Tuesday morning to discuss the Kernel’s cases against multiple Kentucky universities.Beshear filed a motion to intervene in Kentucky...

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Judge rules in favor of UK in Harwood open records case

Paidin Dermody January 24, 2017

Fayette County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Clark ruled in favor of UK Monday in its lawsuit against the Kentucky Kernel, regarding the newspaper’s pursuit of investigative documents in a sexual misconduct...

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Universities cite UK v. Kernel in open records denials

Matt Smith December 8, 2016

The Kernel requested documents pertaining to sexual misconduct investigations of the past five years at Kentucky universities, and the responses so far have returned limited information about incidents. UK...

Confidential

UK’s suit for secrecy betrays public interest

Editorial Board August 13, 2016

A University for Kentucky would not knowingly break the law in a selfish and wasteful pursuit of secrecy.But the University of Kentucky did.UK recently announced it would sue the Kentucky Kernel and broke...

President Eli Capilouto emailed campus with news that the university would be appealing decisions of the Attorney General. Among their appeals is a lawsuit against the Kernel, which requested records of the investigation into the sexual harassment claims against associate professor James Harwood. 

University to sue Kentucky Kernel in effort to appeal Attorney General’s decision

Marjorie Kirk and Will Wright August 8, 2016

UK announced its decision Monday to sue its independent student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, over requests for documents involving an associate professor accused of sexual harassment.The lawsuit is...

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