Petition DENIED. (orders list)

Reply of petitioner Thomas C. Bowling filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 22, 2006.

Brief of respondent Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government in opposition filed.

Brief of respondent Gregory D. Stumbo, Attorney General of Kentucky in opposition filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including May 26, 2006.

Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 26, 2006)

Application (05A597) granted by Justice Stevens extending the time to file until March 6, 2006.

Application (05A597) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 18, 2006 to March 4, 2006, submitted to Justice Stevens.

Thomas C. Bowling, Petitioner, represented by Ursula Bentele

Gregory D. Stumbo, Attorney General of Kentucky, Respondent, represented by David A. Smith

Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Respondent, represented by David Lytton Holmes