Kansas Supreme Court Decisions 2019
Date: December 20, 2019
Docket Number: 115286
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part the decision of the court of appeals reversing Defendant conviction based on a violation of the right to jury trial but affirming the district court's denial of Defendant's motion to…
Date: December 13, 2019
Docket Number: 112883
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions for robbery, kidnapping, and criminal threat, holding that the court of appeals panel property found that any trial errors were harmless both individually and…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 115227
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals affirming the judgment of the district court convicting Defendant of reckless driving and second-degree murder for unintentional but reckless homicide,…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 115247
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion to withdraw his 1982 guilty pleas following an evidentiary hearing on the motion, holding that Defendant failed to establish a…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 115713
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court sentencing Defendant to lifetime postrelease supervision after he was convicted of burglary, theft, criminal damage to property, aggravated indecent liberties…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 118448
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of first-degree premeditated murder, holding that, even if the Court find one error and assume the existence of another, these errors did not, individually or…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 119278
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court denying GFTLenexa, LLC relief in an action based on contractual relationships but brought as an inverse condemnation proceeding, holding that there was no…
Date: December 6, 2019
Docket Number: 121208
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 113228
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the holdings of the court of appeals reversing Defendant's convictions for, inter alia, criminal possession of a firearm, holding that the court of appeals erred in ruling that the trial…
Date: November 27, 2019
Docket Number: 118848
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court judge denying Defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that where Defendant failed to establish that his sentence was illegal at the time it…
Date: November 15, 2019
Docket Number: 114937
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals remanding this case with instructions to enter judgment as a matter of law in favor of the Trust Company of Kansas (TCK) and reverse the jury's verdict…
Date: November 1, 2019
Docket Number: 115441
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court rejecting Appellant's argument that a nineteen-month delay between his arrest and trial violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial, holding that…
Date: November 1, 2019
Docket Number: 116692
Justia Opinion Summary: In this fee dispute between a hospital that provided medical services to an injured worker and a workers compensation carrier that paid the hospital less than the billed amount for those services the Supreme Court…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 115387
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction of one count of criminal threat, holding that the provision in the Kansas criminal threat statute, Kan. Stat. Ann. 21-5415(a)(1), that allows for a criminal conviction if…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 116307
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the court of appeals' judgment reversing the district court's judgment dismissing Plaintiffs' claim for, inter alia, product liability, holding that the Kansas…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 116453
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction of intentionally placing another in fear or of making a threat in reckless disregard of causing fear, holding that, under today's decision in State v. Boettger, __ P.3d…
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number: 116568
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of premeditated murder, four aggravated batteries, and criminal possession of a firearm, holding that there was no error in the proceedings below. Specifically, the…
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number: 116883
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the district court granting the motion to dismiss filed by the City of Overland Park, holding that dismissal was improper on that…
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number: 112449
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction for driving under the influence, holding that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule permits the State to use…
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number: 120875
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number: 116371
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and related crimes but vacated in part the restitution order, holding that the district court made a legal error…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 114403
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court granting summary judgment for Defendants and dismissing Plaintiff's complaint…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 114589
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction and the sentencing judge's imposition of a registration requirement under the Kansas Offender Registration Act (KORA), Kan.…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 114944
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of seven sex crimes and reversed the court of appeals, which reversed two of the convictions sua sponte and remanded the case with directions to resentence Defendant for…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 115628
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court upholding the validity of a transfer-on-death deed that was signed by a benefiting party at the direction of…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 116252
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's convictions of rape and aggravated indecent liberties with a child and vacated the portion of district court's judgment imposing…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 116505
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court convicting Defendant of aggravated assault and criminal threat, holding that an erroneous judicial comment made in front of the jury that is not a jury…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 116524
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction for aggravated criminal sodomy, holding that the district court did not err in admitting testimony about the videotaped…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 118239
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court granting summary judgment against Northern Natural Gas Company, holding that certification from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) permitting…
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number: 118914
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court's judgment granting the State's petition to have Robert Sigler found to be a sexually violent predator (SVP) and civilly…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 114971
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the district court's summary denial of Defendant's untimely pro se motion to correct an illegal sentence under Kan. Stat. Ann. 22-3504, holding…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 115259
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals' decision that affirmed the sentencing court's imposition of an extended probation term as being a legal sentence notwithstanding the sentencing court's reliance on an…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 115602
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's convictions of stalking and criminal threat, holding that there was no reversible error in the proceedings below. Specifically, the…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 115904
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals reversing the district court's summary denial of Defendant's second Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507 motion and remanding the case to the district court for an…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 116469
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's ruling that a $50 fee mandated by Kan. Stat. Ann. 8-1020(d)(2) to gain administrative review of a driver's license suspension is unconstitutional and affirmed the…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 117035
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's upholding the suspension of Michael Creecy's driver's license by the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDR) but held that Kan. Stat. Ann. 8-1020(d)(2)'s monetary requirement to…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 117862
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the district court's decision reversing the revocation of Brenda Rosendahl's driving privileges but affirmed the district court's finding that the statutorily required $50 fee for an…
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 115172
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals' decision affirming the district court's summary denial of Defendant's motion to correct an allegedly illegal sentence but reversed its erroneous holding that it could not…
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 118387
Justia Opinion Summary: In this quiet title action involving the mineral interests in two tracts of real estate, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court finding that the grantees' successors in interest obtained ownership…
Date: August 2, 2019
Docket Number: 116333
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the decision of the district court admitting a testator's will and codicil to probate after the limitation period for petitioning a will for…
Date: August 2, 2019
Docket Number: 116356
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's two criminal threat convictions and his domestic battery conviction and reversing Defendant's aggravated assault conviction, holding…
Date: August 2, 2019
Docket Numbers: 116641, 116,642, 116,643
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated Defendant's sentence in each of three docketed cases in this appeal and remanded each for resentencing, holding that the sentencing court erred in classifying two Arkansas misdemeanors as person…
Date: August 2, 2019
Docket Number: 117299
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court's classification of Defendant's prior Washington state residential burglary conviction as a person felony, holding that the…
Date: July 26, 2019
Docket Number: 116133
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's convictions and sentences, holding that a police officer's discovery of an expired tag on Defendant's vehicle did not present an…
Date: July 26, 2019
Docket Number: 117059
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court rejecting Defendant's claim that he was entitled to a new trial without holding a hearing on the merits of his claim pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S.…
Date: July 26, 2019
Docket Number: 118237
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the district court suppressing derived from a search because it found that the search resulted directly from a police officer's…
Date: July 26, 2019
Docket Number: 118640
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the order of the district court suppressing evidence obtained after police officers unconstitutionally detained Defendant, holding that the court…
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 114635
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of distributing a controlled substance and conspiring to distribute a controlled substance, holding that the court did not err in…
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 114897
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the district court in this action alleging that Defendants sold or offered to sell unregistered securities and committed fraud in…
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 115036
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court convicting Defendant of possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it, holding that the State provided sufficient evidence to support the…
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 115776
Justia Opinion Summary: In this paternity and custody proceeding, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals vacating the judgment of the district court holding David Roy Ogle in contempt and imposing sanctions, holding…
Date: July 19, 2019
Docket Number: 117850
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions for first-degree felony murder, second-degree murder, and felony abuse of a child, holding that none of Defendant's claims of error warranted reversal of his…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Numbers: 114432, 115,637
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's 2014 motion to correct an allegedly illegal sentence imposed twenty years earlier, holding…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 114726
Justia Opinion Summary: In this consolidated appeal, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court summarily denying Defendant's motion to be discharged from custody, filed in his…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 115037
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court's summary denial of Defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that the lower courts did not err or abuse their…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 115129
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court summarily denying Defendant's fourth Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507 motion, holding that there was no error in the…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 115149
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court's summary denial of Defendant's Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507 motion, holding that summary denial of the section 60-1507 motion was…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 115401
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court's summary denial of Defendant's Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507 motion but reversed the district court's imposition of a filing fee as…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 115662
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court's summary denial of Defendant's second Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507 motion, holding that the court of appeals did not err in holding…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Numbers: 115887, 115,888, 115,889
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the district court's summary denial of Defendant's 2015 motions to correct his allegedly illegal sentences imposed in 1996, holding that…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 115899
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court summarily denying Defendant's pro se Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507 motion, holding that Defendant's due process rights were not violated and that summary denial was…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 116251
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the judgment of the district court summarily denying Defendant's pro se Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-1507 motion after considering a written response by the State, holding that the…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 116530
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court summarily denying Defendant's 2015 motion to correct an illegal sentence with respect to his 1997 jury trial…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 117156
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court summarily denying Defendant's pro se motion to correct an illegal sentence and pro se motion to withdraw his plea filed more than a decade after Defendant's…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 117368
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the rulings of the district court accepting and exercising jurisdiction in these five cases involving the continuation of child in need of care (CINC) proceedings, holding that the Kansas court…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 114050
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion to correct his sentence several years after it was imposed, holding that State v.…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 114951
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals ruling that Petitioner's pro se motion quoting Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct (KRPC) 1.3 did not trigger the district court's duty to inquire into a…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 115111
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed decision of the court of appeals affirming the sentencing court's classification of Defendant's prior misdemeanor convictions for violating a City of Wichita municipal ordinance as person…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 115426
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of a majority of the court of appeals panel reversing in part and affirming in part the district court's decision on Defendant's motion to suppress…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 117422
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the court of appeals remanding Defendant's case for a jury trial on whether a firearm sentence enhancement was appropriate and vacated Defendant's…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 117945
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions for first-degree premeditated murder and criminal possession of a firearm, holding that, while certain errors occurred in Defendant's case, the errors were not…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 119269
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court issuing a permanent injunction preventing enforcement of an ordinance passed by the City of Topeka making it unlawful for any person to sell cigarettes,…
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number: 117461
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order denying Appellant's motion for postconviction relief without an evidentiary hearing, holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing consecutive, rather than…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 112765
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court, holding that the noneconomic damages cap under Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-19a02 violated Plaintiff's right under…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 113267
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that through Senate Bill 16's (S.B. 16) additional funding of the State's "Montoy safe harbor plan," the State substantially complied with this Court's mandate from Gannon v. State, 420 P.3d 477…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 113472
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's denial of Defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that the sentencing court properly classified Defendant's 1976 Michigan conviction as a person crime in…
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number: 115352
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the district court reversing the suspension of Appellant's driving privileges based on her arrest and refusal to take a blood…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 111973
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals that Alice King was the legal owner of minerals under a section of land that was the subject of this lawsuit (the Property) and that Luther Term Interest…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 113767
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals ruling that the district court's error in denying Defendant's request for an instruction on imperfect self-defense voluntary manslaughter was harmless,…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 115044
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion to suppress evidence on the ground that incriminating evidence was obtained as the…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 116098
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that Defendant's sentence, which was legal…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 116899
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of first-degree murder under theories of premeditation and felony murder, attempted first-degree murder, and other offenses, holding that the district court did not err…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 117143
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction for first-degree felony murder, holding that there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction. Defendant was convicted of first-degree felony murder after a jury…
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number: 118188
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the judgment of the district court refusing to grant Petitioners' petition to terminate a guardianship and conservatorship over four children in…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 113828
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the judgment of the district court summarily dismissing Defendant's pro se motion for jail credit, holding that the lower courts correctly…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 117788
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and vacated in part the sentence imposed by the district court in connection with Defendant's no contest plea to felony murder, aggravated assault, and criminal possession of a firearm,…
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number: 119170
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the court of appeals majority's decisions to reverse the district judge's decision to suppress evidence and appropriate instructions for her further action on remand but altered the court's…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 113869
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming Defendant's conviction of involuntary manslaughter, holding that the district court did not err by not granting Defendant self-defense immunity…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 116586
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the court of appeals vacating Defendant's sentence for trafficking contraband in jail, holding that the district court should not have included a Missouri municipal ordinance…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 119270
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted Petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the State's authority to pursue a second trial against him on criminal charges, holding that the district judge's declaration of a…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 115657
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court correcting Defendant's postrelease supervision term after Defendant's probation was revoked and he was ordered to serve his original sentence and the court of…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 115869
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court dismissing Plaintiff's suit against Defendants, two commercial drinking establishments, for injuries he suffered in an accident with a vehicle whose driver…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 116648
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of attempted capital murder, kidnapping, burglary, and interference with law enforcement but vacated the court's order that Defendant pay a percentage of the attorney…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 117275
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated Defendant's sentence in part and remanded for resentencing, holding that the district court, on remand, did not comply with the mandate of the Supreme Court by changing Defendant's life sentence…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 117305
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's denial of Defendant's motion to withdraw plea but vacated the lifetime postrelease supervision portion of his sentence, holding that the district court had no authority to…
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number: 121061
Justia Opinion Summary: In this expedited action in quo warranto brought by the State on relation of the Attorney General against Governor Laura Kelly, Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, and the Kansas Senate concerning statutory procedures and…
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number: 114153
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights protects a woman's right to an abortion, thus affirming the trial court's injunction temporarily enjoining the enforcement of S.B. 95, which…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 112834
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction and sentence for one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, holding that there was no error in the conduct of the trial and that Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-455, the…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 114325
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction and sentence for one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, holding that no error occurred in the conduct of Defendant's trial that required reversal. The…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 115648
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction for premeditated first-degree murder, holding that the district erred in denying Defendant's request for a self-defense instruction and that the error was not harmless.…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 115763
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decisions of the Court of Appeals and the Kansas Board of Workers Compensation concluding that Kan. Stat. Ann. 44-523(f)(1) unambiguously requires a claimant to move for extension within…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 116167
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing the decision of the Kansas Workers Compensation Board (Board) affirming an ALJ's denial of Helen Knoll's application for hearing with the Kansas…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 117315
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court sentencing Defendant a third time for two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of robbery, holding that Defendant's second sentence was legally imposed,…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 117344
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court granting Defendants' motions to dismiss Plaintiff's petition alleging that Defendants - medical providers and facilities - committed negligence and medical…
Date: April 19, 2019
Docket Number: 118427
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the summary denial of Defendant's pro se motion, which Defendant called a combined "motion to correct illegal sentence" and "motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction," holding that Defendant…
Date: April 12, 2019
Docket Number: 113412
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal concerning the statutory definition of "idiopathic causes" contained in the statute excluding benefits for certain accidents or injuries the Supreme Court held that the Workers Compensation Appeals Board…
Date: March 29, 2019
Docket Number: 113563
Justia Opinion Summary: In this employment case arising out of the sale of a cattle feedlot the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals reversing summary judgment on Plaintiff's implied-in-fact employment contract claim and…
Date: March 29, 2019
Docket Number: 115431
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, holding that the district court correctly held that the motion was untimely…
Date: March 29, 2019
Docket Number: 116406
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions and sentences, holding that the district court did not err. Defendant was convicted of one count of first-degree premeditated murder and one count of arson. The Supreme…
Date: March 29, 2019
Docket Number: 117933
Justia Opinion Summary: In this Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act (KSVPA) case, Kan. Stat. Ann. 59-29a01 et seq., the Supreme Court remanded Thomas Easterberg's action seeking a petition for writ of habeas corpus, holding that there was a…
Date: March 15, 2019
Docket Number: 112925
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals vacating the jury verdict in favor of Charles Dawson as to his claim that the negligence of his employer, BNSF Railway Company, caused his back injuries,…
Date: March 8, 2019
Docket Number: 115110
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Defendant’s convictions, holding that the district court did not clearly err by failing to instruct on voluntary intoxication in determining…
Date: March 8, 2019
Docket Number: 115634
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court convicting Defendant of first-degree murder and aggravated assault for stabbing her ten-year-old son to death while suffering from a psychotic episode,…
Date: March 8, 2019
Docket Number: 117450
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the summary denial of Appellant’s motion to correct illegal sentence, holding that Appellant’s motion to correct illegal sentence was without merit. Appellant was sentenced to a hard…
Date: March 1, 2019
Docket Number: 113751
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated Defendant’s sentence imposed on remand after a successful criminal appeal, holding that Defendant’s due process rights were violated when he received more prison time upon resentencing.…
Date: March 1, 2019
Docket Number: 117347
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court denying Defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea, holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion. Defendant into an agreement with the State to…
Date: February 22, 2019
Docket Number: 116801
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming Matthew Cone’s involuntary commitment under the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA), Kan. Stat. Ann. 59-29a01 et seq., holding that there…
Date: February 15, 2019
Docket Number: 105183
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal to the Supreme Court after a remand to the district court for a hearing to determine whether Defendant was denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel, the Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions…
Date: February 15, 2019
Docket Number: 113580
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court denying Defendant’s motion for a new trial and sustained the portion of the State’s cross-appeal arguing that Defendant’s crimes were not statutorily eligible…
Date: February 8, 2019
Docket Number: 116564
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court denying Defendant’s motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that the motion was not the appropriate procedural vehicle to raise the constitutional…
Date: January 25, 2019
Docket Number: 115629
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and vacated in part the decision of the district court granting Defendant’s motion to correct an illegal sentence but then modifying the duration and concurrent nature of one of…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 115948
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court’s garnishment order in favor of a judgment creditor and her insurer, holding that the insurer demonstrated prejudice as a…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 115993
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the portion of the court of appeals’ decision holding that relevant statutes required that the district court impose certain expenses as “court costs” but affirmed the portion of the decision…
Date: January 11, 2019
Docket Number: 113165
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the district court’s denial of Defendant’s motion to suppress the fruits of a vehicle search, holding that the general search of Defendant’s…
Date: January 11, 2019
Docket Number: 114271
Justia Opinion Summary: In this dispute over a claim by former tenants for relocation benefits after the City of Topeka negotiated and acquired property where the tenants operated their businesses the Supreme Court rejected the tenants’…
Date: January 11, 2019
Docket Number: 116423
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s summary denial of Appellant’s motion to correct an illegal sentence, holding that this motion was not the appropriate procedural vehicle for Appellant to raise his…
Date: January 11, 2019
Docket Number: 116650
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s denial of Appellant’s postconviction motion to compel discovery, holding that Kan. Stat. Ann. 60-237 did not authorize the relief Appellant sought. Appellant was convicted…
Date: January 11, 2019
Docket Number: 117654
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s sentences for capital murder and other felonies and vacated the Board of Indigents’ Defense Services (BIDS) fee imposed on Defendant, holding that the district judge erred by…
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