Though he is still awaiting a Kentucky supreme court ruling on whether he should be disbarred, legendary plaintiffs lawyer Stanley Chesley is facing one less legal threat stemming from his conduct in a class action settlement.
On Friday, Kenton County circuit judge Gregory Bartlett dismissed two lawsuits alleging that Chesley had defrauded clients in the settlement of a sex-abuse class action suit against the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. (The suits also named Chesley’s Cincinnati-based law firm, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, and his colleague Robert Steinberg as defendants.)
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