The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in three opinions on Friday that the state’s sex offender registry law can’t be applied retroactively, then overruled itself in a fourth opinion issued the…
Already serving a 20-year federal prison term for cocaine trafficking, Calah Johnson was sentenced Monday to another concurrent 20-year term in Missouri state court for accidentally shooting to death a…
A unit of Johnson & Johnson that sold laparoscopic power morcellators used to cut a woman’s uterus into small pieces that could be extracted through a tiny incision is settling…
Kansas drivers who refuse a blood test, a breath test or an analysis of some other bodily substance to determine whether they are under the influence cannot be criminally punished…
The Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled a temporary school funding law violated the state constitution because it did not cure inequities between school districts.
Corrected: Spencer Fane announced Monday that the 170-attorney firm is opening an Oklahoma City office, its first in the state, with at least 9 lawyers from the former Lester Loving…
The Kansas legislature has backed off in a separation-of-powers showdown with the state supreme court, repealing a section of an earlier statute that would have taken away the court’s power…
The Kansas Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended a lawyer who blamed her failure to file a criminal appeal on her disillusionment with law practice and the client’s threats against her…
The Kansas Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a section of state law that took away the court’s authority to appoint chief judges in the state’s 31 judicial districts in…
After serving more than 15 years in prison for the slaying of his teenage sister-in-law, a Kansas man was freed Tuesday because recent DNA testing pointed the finger at his…
All but one justice on the Kansas Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a state law on the selection of chief judges, though its “institutional power” and court funding…
Back when former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline was defending a legal ethics case over his handling of abortion-related matters, he sought and got the recusal of several justices on…
Days before his jury trial was set to begin on Monday over “storm the courthouse” remarks he made on Facebook about a controversial murder trial, a Kansas man has accepted…
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