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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.
A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while employed at the University of Kansas. Feng “Franklin” Tao was convicted ...
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.
Derek Schmidt, to the Kansas Court of Appeals. It issued a 7–7 decision in January 2016, effectively upholding the district court's decision. The state then appealed again to the state supreme court, with oral arguments heard in March 2017. It argued that the state constitution couldn't protect abortion rights since abortion was mostly ...
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 ...
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.