Supreme Court justice sets retirement date

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Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert will step down from the high court after 23 years on March 28, a decision that was announced...

Lawsuit challenges new law designating bathrooms, driver’s licenses by sex

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(Developing: Will be updated as circumstances warrant) A lawsuit has been filed challenging a new state law banning transgender people from using restrooms and locker...

House approves incentives to attract rural attorneys

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The Kansas House has approved incentives to encourage law students to practice in rural Kansas in response to a shortage of attorneys in the...

BREAKING: Trump nominates three to federal bench in Kansas

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(Developing: Will be updated) President Donald Trump on Wednesday night nominated three lawyers to the federal bench in Kansas, including Kansas Bureau of Investigation Director...

Senate approves bill banning lawyers from floating damage awards to juries

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The Kansas Senate on Wednesday passed a bill banning lawyers from suggesting amounts for noneconomic damages to juries, a technique that the business community...

National effort to ban NDAs in child sex-abuse cases comes to Kansas

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It's one thing when lawyers use nondisclosure agreements in lawsuits over slips and falls, car wrecks or workplace injuries. It's become entirely something else when...

Power of suggestion in Kansas courtrooms: Should lawyers float damage amounts?

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The power of suggestion in a Kansas courtroom. Can it lead it to runaway jury verdicts? Or does it lead to better informed juries? The Kansas Legislature...

Kobach backs bill forcing governor to turn over food-assistance data

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Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach on Tuesday urged Kansas lawmakers to pass a law that would force Gov. Laura Kelly's administration to supply food-assistance...

Appeals court says injunction against KHP went too far in ‘two-step’ case

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A federal appeals court on Thursday found that a federal judge was out of bounds when she handed down a wide-ranging injunction against the...

Bill banning DL gender marker changes expanded to government bathrooms

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A House committee late Monday afternoon approved an expanded bill that would bar transgender people from using government restrooms and locker rooms that don't...