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The Kansas Court of Appeals has affirmed two Shawnee County District Court rulings favoring Topeka's city government in lawsuits filed against it by two people who suffered injuries they say left ...
The court decided 2-1 that a Yelp review calling the Johnson County plastic surgeon a “monster” who “ruins lives” didn’t constitute defamation.
Kansas Court of Appeals judges sit in panels of three at locations throughout the state, but most frequently at the primary courtroom in the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka. The court also has the power to review matters en banc. Each panel typically rules on approximately 30 appeals over a two-day period every month.
The Ethics Commission is appealing the decision, asking the Kansas Supreme Court to take the case. While Watson’s decision applies only to the subpoena of Billingsley, an opinion by the state ...
Kahler v. Kansas, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), is a case of the United States Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution do not require that states adopt the insanity defense in criminal cases that are based on the defendant's ability to recognize right from wrong.
The majority opinion reversed a 2023 appeals court decision that recognized any restrictions on the fundamental right to vote would be subject to the highest legal bar for evaluation, or strict ...
On February 11, 2021, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly appointed Hurst to be a judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy left by Judge Melissa Standridge who was elevated to the Kansas Supreme Court. [3] She was confirmed on March 23, 2021, by the Kansas Senate, becoming the first woman of color to serve on the Court of Appeals.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is continuing a legal battle with the Food and Drug Administration to ban mifepristone, one of two drugs used for medicated abortions, after the U.S. Supreme ...