Kansas News

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill and constitutional amendment Wednesday granting the governor more power in appointment of judges to the Kansas Court of Appeals and justices to the Kansas Supreme Court.

The Kansas Senate may be ready to alter how members of the Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are chosen, and to ask voters to concur on an upcoming statewide ballot.

Stan R. Boles, a dissatisfied class action member, lost on his objection to the class certification and class action settlement agreement negotiated with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation by the class representative.

In a democracy like ours, should lawmakers be selected democratically? Not according to the Journal-World, which wants some of our state’s most important lawmakers selected in a deeply undemocratic process that makes the votes of some residents count far more than the votes of others.

Kansas is among some 30 states in arbitration with Big Tobacco companies that are seeking to reduce payments promised to the states under a mammoth legal settlement from the 1990s.

Conservative lawmakers heard several options Saturday for changing how Kansas’ appellate and Supreme Court judges are selected in a discussion that may foreshadow a fierce debate in the upcoming legislative session.

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state law that caps the damages awarded in medical malpractice cases.

The Kansas Supreme Court today announced it will file on Friday a long-awaited decision in a legal challenge of limits on medical malpractice awards that stems from a case where a Eudora woman had the wrong ovary removed by a Lawrence physician.

The Kansas City Star triggered a wave of class actions across the country in 2006, when it estimated that expanding gas volumes in hot weather were costing consumers billions in hidden costs at the pump. Now jurors in Kansas City, Kan., have delivered the first jury verdict in the resulting federal litigation, absolving three retailers at the center of the "hot fuel" mess.

A federal appeals court has rejected a legal challenge to the way Kansas selects judicial nominees to its Supreme Court.