• The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of seven justices, led by Chief Justice Marla Luckert...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • first Kansas Court of Appeals in 1895, to help the Kansas Supreme Court with an increasingly heavy caseload. The original statute that created the court contained...
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  • of justices of the Kansas Supreme Court. As of 2020[update], the Kansas Supreme Court has seven justices. Biography portal Kansas portal Law portal Lists...
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  • In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869...
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  • The Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission was established in 1958 when Kansas voters approved an amendment to the state's constitution. The commission...
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  • Hermesmann v. Seyer (category 1993 in Kansas)
    award. In 1993, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Seyer that he was not liable to pay for child support. The court held that the admitted...
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    Kansas. In 2004, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the state's death penalty law, but the Kansas Attorney General appealed to the US Supreme Court,...
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  • Kesler - Rosen - Kansas Supreme Court". Kscourts.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05. "Knighton vs. Merscorp Inc Opinion in the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals"....
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  • (1869–1958), chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court John Marshall (Kansas judge) (1858–1931), justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from 1915 to 1931 Margaret H...
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    by the nine-member Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission. The board consists of five Kansas lawyers elected by other Kansas lawyers and four members...
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  • Kahler v. Kansas, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), is a case of the United States Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments...
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  • abortion have been challenged at the Kansas Supreme Court and US Supreme Court level. On August 2, 2022, Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment...
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    declared that the Kansas government is not required to fund abortions. On June 24, 2022, six weeks before the referendum, the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs...
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  • Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court set forth procedures for the indefinite civil commitment...
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    system of Kansas is the branch of the Kansas state government that interprets the state's laws and constitution. Headed by the Kansas Supreme Court, the judiciary...
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  • of the United States Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932 Richard Winn Holmes (1923–1999), associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court Robert E. Holmes (1922–2004)...
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    David J. Brewer (category Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court)
    attorney for Leavenworth County. In 1870, he was elected to the Kansas Supreme Court, where he served for fourteen years, participating in decisions on...
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  • threatening "the viability of schools and infrastructure" in Kansas. The Kansas Supreme Court had ordered the state legislature "to increase funding for...
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  • Kansas v. Carr, 577 U.S. 108 (2016), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States clarified several procedures for sentencing defendants...
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  • of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales Schuyler W. Jackson (1904–1964), associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court Judge Jackson (disambiguation)...
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    September 24, 2020. "Kansas Supreme Court elections, 2020". Ballotpedia. Retrieved September 24, 2020. "Kansas intermediate appellate court elections, 2020"...
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  • case law in the United States is based on decisions of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Each of these decisions deals with the Second Amendment...
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  • Kansas v. Glover, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held when a police officer lacks information negating...
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  • Grant, vacate, remand (category Supreme Court of the United States)
    Lawrence v. Chater. An example of the Supreme Court issuing a GVR order is the case of Kansas v. Limon. Under Kansas state law, statutory rape charges involving...
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  • Same-sex marriage became legal in Kansas following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, which found the denial...
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  • Kansas v. Cheever, 571 U.S. 87 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a unanimous Court held that the Fifth Amendment does not prevent...
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  • Melissa Standridge (category Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court)
    has served as a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court since 2020. She previously served as a judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2020. Standridge...
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  • Evelyn Wilson (category Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court)
    Evelyn Zabel Wilson (born December 6, 1959) is a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. Wilson graduated from Bethany College in 1982 with a bachelor's degree...
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