Tag: lawsuit
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has approved a $165,000 settlement between a large suburban Kansas City school district and a student who was sexually assaulted by a middle school classmate. The Shawnee…
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…
Gun makers and sellers have never really had to account for the deadly consequences of their products because of an unusual federal law enacted in 2005 that gives them immunity from most lawsuits. So the…
The Trump administration broke a federal law when it reached a settlement allowing a gun-technology company to post online the digital blueprints for making weapons with a 3D printer, a judge ruled. The State Department…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach acknowledged that he failed to properly supervise his staff while representing himself in that role during federal court proceedings in a voter registration lawsuit,…
CLEVELAND (AP) The nations three dominant drug distributors and a big drugmaker have reached a tentative deal to settle a lawsuit related to the opioid crisis just as the first federal trial over the…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Netflix has released a movie based on the so-called Panama Papers despite an attempt by two lawyers to stop the streaming premiere. The Laundromat, starring Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas and…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) Another suburban Kansas City school district plans to sue a leading e-cigarette maker as the number of vaping-related illnesses in the U.S. climbs to about 1,300 cases. KMBC-TV reports that the…
Allen County commissioners passed a resolution on Tuesday morning authorizing the county to employ a law firm on their behalf in potential litigation against contributors of the opioid addiction crisis. Back in August, an Oklahoma…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has joined a legal battle to save a federal program that shields young immigrants from deportation. Kellys move Friday puts the Democratic governor and Republican Kansas Attorney…
