Kenneth Handmaker is a Member of McBrayer in the firm’s Louisville office, practicing in the firm’s alcoholic beverage regulation, employment law, administrative law, and litigation groups. His national-scale practice experience equips him to handle any of a wide range of potential issues that clients may bring to him.

capabilities, successes, and assignments

• Serve as outside counsel to a fire protection district.
• Serve as general counsel to several restaurants and bars.
• Serve as Kentucky Counsel for national drug store chain.
• Serve as Kentucky Counsel to one of the world's largest alcoholic beverage distributors.

Published Cases:

• Graoch Associates #33, L.P. v. Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Human Relations Com'n
• Huber Winery v. Wilcher, 488 F. Supp. 2d 592, 596 (W.D. Ky. 2006)
• Cherry Hill Vineyards, LLC v. Hudgins, 488 F. Supp. 2d 601 (W.D. Ky. 2006)
• DIRECTV, Inc. v. Treesh, 487 F.3d 471 (6th Cir. 2007)
• McAuley v. Int'l Bus. Machines Corp., 165 F.3d 1038 (6th Cir. 1999)
• Beverage Warehouse, Inc. v. Com., Dep't of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 382 S.W.3d 34 (Ky. Ct. App. 2011)
• St. Ledger v. Com., 912 S.W.2d 34 (Ky. 1995), cert. granted, judgment vacated sub nom. St. Ledger v. Kentucky Revenue Cabinet, 517 U.S. 1206, 116 S. Ct. 1821, 134 L. Ed. 2d 927 (1996)
• Morris v. Oldham Cnty. Fiscal Ct., 201 F.3d 784 (6th Cir. 2000)
• Kentucky Milk Mktg. & Antimonopoly Comm'n v. Kroger Co., 691 S.W.2d 893 (Ky. 1985)
• Com., Revenue Cabinet v. St. Ledger, 955 S.W.2d 539 (Ky. Ct. App. 1997)
• Liquor Outlet, LLC v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd., 141 S.W.3d 378 (Ky. Ct. App. 2004)
• Louisville/Jefferson Cnty. Metro Gov't v. TDC Grp., LLC, 283 S.W.3d 657 (Ky. 2009)
• Graoch Assocs. # 33 Ltd. P'ship v. Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro Hum. Rels. Comm'n, 430 F. Supp. 2d 676 (W.D. Ky. 2006), aff'd on other grounds sub nom. Graoch Assocs. # 33, L.P. v. Louisville/Jefferson Cnty. Metro Hum. Rels. Comm'n, 508 F.3d 366 (6th Cir. 2007)
• Meadows Health Sys. E., Inc. v. Louisville/Jefferson Cnty. Metro Revenue Comm'n, 375 S.W.3d 71 (Ky. Ct. App. 2012)
• Taylor Drug Stores, Inc. v. Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Comm'n, 497 N.E.2d 932 (Ind. Ct. App. 1986)
• Highview Eng'g, Inc. v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs, 864 F. Supp. 2d 645 (W.D. Ky. 2012)
• Burch v. Taylor Drug Store, Inc., 965 S.W.2d 830 (Ky. Ct. App. 1998), abrogated by Kentucky
• Unemployment Ins. Comm'n v. Cecil, 381 S.W.3d 238 (Ky. 2012)
• Louisville/Jefferson Cnty. Metro Gov't v. O'Shea's-Baxter, LLC, 438 S.W.3d 379 (Ky. 2014)
• Nat'l Can Corp. v. K Beverage Co., 674 F.2d 1134 (6th Cir. 1982)
• Dennis v. Fiscal Ct. of Bullitt Cnty., 784 S.W.2d 608 (Ky. Ct. App. 1990)
• Kroger Ltd. P'ship I v. Cabinet for Health Servs., Com. of Ky., 174 S.W.3d 516 (Ky. Ct. App. 2005)
• Hogan v. Long, 922 S.W.2d 368 (Ky. 1995)
• Wells v. Fiscal Ct. of Jefferson Cnty., 457 S.W.2d 498 (Ky. 1970)
• First Nat. Bank of Dubuque v. Mackey, 338 N.W.2d 361 (Iowa 1983)
• Smothers v. Lewis, 672 S.W.2d 62 (Ky. 1984)
• Steilberg v. C2 Facility Sols., LLC, 275 S.W.3d 732 (Ky. Ct. App. 2008)
• Dep't of Alcoholic Beverage Control v. Liquor Outlet, Inc., 734 S.W.2d 816 (Ky. Ct. App. 1987)
• Polk v. Wimsatt, 689 S.W.2d 363 (Ky. Ct. App. 1985)
• Perry v. Ernest R. Hamilton Assocs., Inc., 485 S.W.2d 505 (Ky. 1972)
• Beckham v. Bd. of Educ. of Jefferson Cnty., 873 S.W.2d 575 (Ky. 1994)
• Puckett v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 477 S.W.2d 811 (Ky. 1971)
• Maxwell's Pic-Pac, Inc. v. Dehner, 739 F.3d 936 (6th Cir. 2014)
• Kentucky Comm'n on Hum. Rts. v. Lesco Mfg. & Design Co., 736 S.W.2d 361 (Ky. Ct. App. 1987)
• Wright v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 93 F.R.D. 491 (W.D. Ky. 1982)
• Am. Collectors Exch., Inc. v. Kentucky State Democratic Cent. Exec. Comm., 566 S.W.2d 759 (Ky. Ct. App. 1978)
• Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Jefferson Fam. Fair, Inc., 521 S.W.2d 244 (Ky. 1975)
• Hepke v. Harris, 657 F.2d 100 (6th Cir. 1981)
• H. Overmyer Co. v. Hirsch Bros. & Co., 459 S.W.2d 598 (Ky. 1970)
• In re Cohen, 401 S.W.2d 54 (Ky. 1966)
• Cherry Hill Vineyards, LLC v. Lilly, 553 F.3d 423 (6th Cir. 2008)
• Muse v. Int'l Bus. Machines Corp., 103 F.3d 490 (6th Cir. 1996)
• Stacey v. Dep't of Pro. Regul., Bd. of Nursing Home Administrators, 547 So. 2d 241 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)
• Summers v. Middleton & Reutlinger, P.S.C., 214 F. Supp. 2d 751 (W.D. Ky. 2002)
• Gates v. Strube, 415 S.W.2d 852 (Ky. 1967)
• Ariens v. Olin Mathieson Chem. Corp., 382 F.2d 192 (6th Cir. 1967)
• Processteel, Inc. v. Mosley Mach. Co., 421 F.2d 1074 (6th Cir. 1970)
• Gunderson v. Friden, Inc., 372 F.2d 303 (6th Cir. 1967)
• Harry M. Stevens Co. v. Workmen's Comp. Bd., 553 S.W.2d 852, 852 (Ky. Ct. App. 1977)
• Duncan v. Handmaker, 149 F.3d 424 (6th Cir. 1998)

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