264 ABA Journal Kansas articles.
The Kansas Supreme Court is barring release of records of abortion patients until it considers a motion to quash grand-jury subpoeanas for the documents.
A grand jury has subpoenaed medical…
Feb 6, 2008 12:37 PM CST
An almost-forgotten law in Kansas that allows citizens to convene grand juries reportedly has become a tool for local conservatives to use to force prosecutors to pursue abortion and pornography…
Jan 18, 2008 6:29 PM CST
The attorney general of Kansas, who has been embroiled in a sex scandal that also raises significant legal ethics issues, announced today that he will resign from office effective at…
Dec 14, 2007 10:59 PM CST
An admitted extramarital affair is the least of it. A longtime employee in the Johnson County, Kan., district attorney’s office says she was sexually harassed by the new state attorney…
Dec 12, 2007 11:57 PM CST
A midsize Kansas City firm in the midst of merger talks isn’t waiting for that deal to expand.
Blackwell Sanders already dispatched the former head of its London office to…
Nov 27, 2007 9:50 PM CST
Echoing a similar holding by a federal judge concerning another company executive, a special master in Kansas state court has found that a utility company wrongly refused to pay $2.46…
Nov 15, 2007 7:17 PM CST
A sperm donor who wants a relationship with his children has failed to overturn a Kansas law that bars parental rights absent a written agreement.
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In an unusual case emerging out of Kansas, a late-term abortion provider has petitioned the state supreme court to block a grand jury investigation into his clinic practices.
Anti-abortion groups…
Oct 24, 2007 8:50 PM CDT
A former Kansas attorney general who wrangled with abortion clinics is continuing to take an aggressive stance as a local district attorney.
Prosecutor Phill Kline charged a Planned Parenthood clinic…
Oct 18, 2007 1:44 PM CDT
Despite the attention paid in recent months to Howrey’s announcement that it would no longer implement a so-called lockstep pay schedule for associate attorneys, merit-based salary schedules are by no…
Oct 15, 2007 8:03 PM CDT
With a $57.5 million Kansas class action settlement just announced by Sprint-Nextel Corp., the company’s settlement agreements in three cases during the past month now total nearly $150 million.
If…
Sep 25, 2007 11:41 PM CDT
Playing to a serial killer’s ego helped crack the case
May 1, 2006 12:01 AM CDT
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