Kentucky Legal Overview: Louisville-Jefferson County The Louisville-Jefferson County metropolitan area is defined by the census bureau as covering nine counties in Kentucky and four in Indiana. Apart from Jefferson County, the other eight Kentucky counties are Bullitt, Henry, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer and Trimble. The Louisville-Jefferson County MSA combines with the Elizabethtown MSA (Hardin and LaRue counties in Kentucky) and Indiana’s Scottsburg MSA to form the Louisville-Elizabethtown-Scottsburg KY-IN combined statistical area or CSA. The main Kentucky cities in the Louisville-Jefferson County metro area are listed below.
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1. Jefferson County is served by the 30th Judicial Circuit and 30th District. The Jefferson County Judicial Center houses the judicial circuit with separate divisions for civil, criminal and family courts. The circuit court has general jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases filed in Lexington and Jefferson County.
Trending Legal Topics: Appeals against verdicts handed down by the circuit and district courts will have to be filed with the Kentucky Court of Appeals, which has roving appellate panels that convene in all parts of the state for hearings. The Kentucky Supreme Court may also agree to hear an appeal or review an appellate panel’s verdict. Federal cases in all nine counties in the metro must be filed with the Louisville Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Federal appeals are to be filed with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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