Lawsuit challenging occupational license tax thrown out  A
special judge in James Orrahood’s lawsuit against the city of
Henderson’s occupational license tax has dismissed the case in
favor of the city, according to court documents filed Friday.
The case was dismissed “with prejudice,” which means it is over
unless Orrahood decides to take it to the Kentucky Court of
Appeals. Orrahood said Friday he has not yet made that decision.
Special Circuit Judge Dennis R. Foust, in his written order,
said he was “not unsympathetic” to Orrahood’s situation, but
that he is bound by an earlier ruling of the Court of Appeals,
which “explicitly stated the taxing ordinance is valid. That
being the case, no further pleadings are necessary and this
court can rule based upon the facts before it.”  The city for
several years failed to appoint an occupational license appeals
board after it passed the ordinance, and did so only when the
Court of Appeals chastised it for not doing so. At that time the
appellate court overturned t