Two Lexington attorneys have been sanctioned for violating state court rules after they were found by a judge to have put forth false claims in a class action lawsuit against equine veterinarians who X-rayed horses to be sold at Keeneland.
Mason Miller and William Rambicure of Miller Edwards Rambicure Law were at the head of a 2019 lawsuit which alleged veterinarians at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington falsified the dates on X-ray images of horses sold at Keeneland public auctions “in order to make it appear the X-rays were taken within three weeks of the sale. In fact, those X-rays were older than that,” the suit alleged.
They represented Tom Swearingen in the initial suit, a horse buyer who claimed the misdated X-rays affected his business. The case was dismissed by the Kentucky Court of Appeals who found that Swearingen lied in his complaint and did not suffer any damages as a result of the claimed issues.
In a sanction order filed Dec. 1, Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Goodman ordered that Rambicue and Miller pay attorneys’ fees for the defendants after Goodman found that the two attorneys had filed the complaint before they even had a client who wanted to sue the veterinarians.
“Far from meeting the class action requirements, by all appearances Miller and Rambicure were trying to find a plaintiff who could carry a class action,” court documents state. “It is clear to the Court that, … plaintiff’s counsel, and not plaintiff, is the driving force behind...
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