The well-chronicled fall of famed plaintiffs lawyer Stanley Chesley took yet another plunge Thursday when a warrant was issued for his arrest in Kentucky. The one-page warrant, obtained by The Am Law Daily and signed by Boone County Circuit Court Judge James Schrand II in Burlington, Kentucky, cites a charge of “contempt” against Chesley.
According to The Courier-Journal of Louisville, which first reported the news, the warrant was issued when Chesley did not appear at a hearing stemming from his refusal to pay a whopping $42 million judgment—ordered by Schrand in August 2014—to former clients he represented in class action litigation over the diet drug fen-phen.
