Kansas News

The Kansas Senate turned back an effort Thursday to hand over state appeals court appointments to the governor.

The lawsuit provided some interesting, and hilarious, reading, to be sure, but Shawnee County District Court Judge Franklin R. Theis did the right thing earlier this month when he dismissed the case and ended the frivolity. 

A Shawnee County District Court judge last week dismissed Jesse Dimmick’s lawsuit against the couple he kidnapped in southwest Shawnee County. District Judge Franklin R. Theis dismissed the suit Jan. 9, according to the court’s website.

Wichita trial lawyers may soon feel like they're not in Kansas anymore. Late last week, the Kansas state House of Representatives passed a law that would change the way the state selects its appeals court judges, scaling back a system that has given disproportionate power to lawyers and pushed state courts to the left.