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The U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday, announced that it will be taking up an abortion-related case out of Kentucky. This will be the first time the justices have considered the issue in oral arguments with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the court.

On Friday, a U.S. federal appeals court in Kentucky ruled that it is not unconstitutional for the state to require that abortion clinics have agreements with local hospitals and ambulance services in the event of a medical emergency.

Six months after the police-involved killing of Breonna Taylor, the city of Louisville, Kentucky has reached a $12 million settlement with Taylor's family. City officials have also promised the family police reform. 

A Kentucky ban on dilation and evacuation or dismemberment abortion was overturned on Tuesday by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kentucky churches can now meet in-person during the coronavirus pandemic after three federal courts in two days ruled against an order by the Kentucky governor.

Daniel Cameron, a Kentucky Attorney General said this week that he will sue if the Governor does not rescind the ban on in-person church gatherings.

A federal judge decided on Tuesday that a Louisville church can indeed hold drive-in-services, despite the mayor issuing a ban on such services just two weeks ago.

The Department of Justice has weighed in on an on-going religious liberty case, noting that they believe a Kentucky ordinance that would force a wedding photographer to photograph same-sex weddings violates her freedom of religion.

A federal judge ruled that the state of Kentucky must pay an atheist man more than $150,000 after the state denied his request for a vanity license plate that read, "IM GOD."

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law on Monday requiring abortionists to show and describe an ultrasound to a pregnant woman.