Supreme Court To Hear Lawson Appeal

{Louisville, Kentucky}…The Kentucky Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by highway contractor Leonard Lawson. Earlier this year, the Kentucky Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling rejected an argument by Lawson that his privacy would be invaded if a statement he made to investigators in 1983 was released. The statement was mentioned in a 2008 federal bribery case against Lawson. Lawson agreed to give the statement as part of a deal with state and federal investigators after a company he owned at the time, Mountain Enterprises, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of violating antitrust law. The high court is expected to hear arguments in the case in the late spring or early summer of 2013.