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Following the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act by the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1854, and the subsequent organization of the new federal Territory of Kansas (1854-1861) out of the previous old Missouri Territory (1812-1821), the new 14th President Franklin Pierce (1804-1869, served 1853-1857), appointed Samuel Dexter ...
Before working for the Kansas Supreme Court, Wall had been a private practice litigator in Greeley, Colorado [4] and was senior counsel at Federated Insurance in Owatonna, Minnesota. He was a partner with Forbes Law Group in Kansas City, where he regularly represented rural hospitals and other clients in courts throughout the state. [2] [3]
State v. Limon, 280 Kan. 275, 122 P.3d 22 (2005), [1] is a Kansas Supreme Court case in which a state law allowing for lesser punishment for statutory rape convictions if the partners were of different sexes than if they were of the same sex was found unconstitutional under both the federal and Kansas state constitutions.
Kansas has become a crucial national access point for abortion in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion, leading Missouri and a swatch of mostly ...
The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the decision, finding that it is permissible for the absent plaintiffs to have less contact with Kansas than the defendants, and that these plaintiffs have chosen Kansas law. The Kansas Supreme Court found that forum law controlled absent 'compelling reasons' for another law to control, comparing the suit to one ...
The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others ...
Marla Jo Luckert [1] (born July 20, 1955) is the chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. She was appointed by Governor Bill Graves on November 20, 2002, and sworn into office on January 13, 2003. [ 2 ]
‘Noisy conduct’ provision of Wichita law is unconstitutional, Kansas Supreme Court rules. Matthew Kelly. March 15, 2024 at 4:44 PM. File photo.