Tag: Kansas Supreme Court
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Six trial-court judges in Kansas filed a lawsuit Friday against the state Legislature in hopes of forcing it to increase funding for the court system in a move certain to intensify…
TOPEKA, Kansas A Shawnee County district judge was named Monday to one of the vacancies on the Kansas Supreme Court. Though the states most prominent anti-abortion group opposed Shawnee County District Court Judge Evelyn…
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss left a mark. Not just in his 17 years on the high court, the 17,000 cases he helped decide and the 300 decisions he wrote. No, Nuss also…
Anti-abortion activists are hoping they can ignite a statewide backlash to a Kansas Supreme Court decision earlier this year that recognizes a womans right to abortion. Their goal is threefold: To get a constitutional amendment…
A nine-member commission that nominates candidates for the Kansas Supreme Court followed the letter of the law, a Sedgwick County district judge ruled last week. Thats disappointing news for Susan Wagle, president of the Kansas…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A top Republican legislators complaint has launched an investigation into whether the commission that screens Kansas Supreme Court applicants violated the states open meetings law in picking three finalists for Democratic…
Thanks to affordable and easily accessible birth control, the rate of abortions in the United States is at its lowest point since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortions in 1973. The Affordable Care Act deserves…
TOPEKA Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss announced Friday hell retire in mid-December after serving on the states highest court since 2002, when Republican Gov. Bill Graves tapped him for the role. That…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss plans to retire in December, giving Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly a second appointment on the court. Nuss announced Friday that he plans to step…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas Supreme Court justice whose votes for abortion rights and against the death penalty made him a political target plans to retire in three months, allowing Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly…
