Tag: lawsuit
While Allen Countys new wind farm is up and going, the fate of more wind energy development in neighboring counties is decidedly murkier. Wind resistance is coming in two forms in Neosho County, and could…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas and Missouri affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union have sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons on behalf of an inmate they claim could die without a drug used…
Violence in the workplace is no laughing matter. Apparently, officials in the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas didnt get the memo from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A judge has cut a jury award in a lawsuit that found that Monsantos Roundup herbicide caused cancer in a California couple from $2.055 billion to $87 million, the third time…
CLEVELAND (AP) Tension is emerging between lawyers representing state and local governments over the path forward in a set of lawsuits seeking to hold the drug industry accountable for the toll of the nations…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Wednesday to make it easier to protest inside the Kansas Statehouse, as some members of the Republican-controlled Legislature worry that liberal demonstrators…
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…
BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) An east-central Kansas hospital has agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit for $250,000. The Wichita Eagle reports that the lawsuit alleged that the Coffey Health System lied to the federal government…
A day after Kansas notified Planned Parenthood in May 2016 that it would cut off its participation in Medicaid, the nonprofit group sued to block the move. So Kansas hired three high-powered East Coast law…
Julie Rosenquists complaints of unequal pay fell on deaf ears. As a school principal, Rosenquist was paid 90 percent of her male counterparts. When she complained, officials boosted her pay by 3%. When she sued,…
