Tag: Kansas Supreme Court
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansass highest court ruled Friday that cities can raise the age for buying tobacco products even though state law sets it at 18, bolstering a public health movement driven in part…
A Kansas law that caps jury awards for noneconomic damages things like pain and suffering violates the right to a trial by jury, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Friday. This is huge,…
No doubt, most everyone welcomed the Kansas Supreme Courts ruling Friday that state legislators have finally met their financial obligation to public K-12 schools with their most recent boost of $90 million a year for…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court signed off Friday on an increase in spending on public schools that the Democratic governor pushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature, but the justices refused to close the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court signed off Friday on an increase in spending on public schools that the Democratic governor pushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature, but the justices refused to close the…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a 34-year-old rule that prohibits victims injured by drunken drivers from suing the bars that served them. The high courts ruling on Friday came…
Last week the Court ruled that the Bill of Rights in the Kansas Constitution protects Kansans right of personal autonomy, including a womans right to terminate a pregnancy. Then, on Monday, the Court hears the…
Those who resent big government interfering in their personal decisions were heartened by Fridays decision by the Kansas Supreme Court. By a 6-1 margin, the Court declared that the Kansas Constitution protects a womans right…
In a landmark case one judge called it the most significant and far-reaching decision this court has ever made a clear majority said Friday that the Kansas Constitution fundamentally protects the right to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas’ highest court ruled for the first time Friday that the state constitution protects abortion rights and blocked a first-in-the-nation ban on a common second trimester method for ending pregnancies. The…
