Langham: Kentucky, Stare Decisis and Noncompliance Standards

An interesting opinion of the Kentucky Supreme Court came to my attention recently. The May 5, 2016, decision in Halcomb v. American Mining is worthy of a read. But a read is all it is worth, because though the court's lengthy analysis brought closure to this case, it is arguably worthless beyond the four corners of that dispute. It astounds me that in the modern age there are courts that decide cases and then specifically and intentionally insist that no one ever use or refer to them. This erodes the judicial concept of stare decisis, which is the bedrock of&...