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The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled [1] that the necessity defense may not be used when the harm the defendant claims to be avoiding through his actions was legal, while the action undertaken to prevent it was illegal. [2]
Hermesmann v. Seyer (State of Kansas ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer, 847 P.2d 1273 (Kan. 1993)) [1] was a precedent-setting Kansas, United States, case in which Colleen Hermesmann successfully argued that a woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a criminal act committed by the woman.
Kansas, 123 U.S. 623 (1887), was an important United States Supreme Court case in which the 7–1 opinion written by John Marshall Harlan with a lone partial dissent by Stephen Johnson Field. The decision laid the foundation for the Supreme Court's later acceptance and defense during the Lochner era of Justice Field's theory of economic ...
“He’s involved in all these cases that everybody heard (of).” Ney, who died of pancreatic cancer Nov. 15, had a number of firsts, such as starting the Sedgwick County Public Defender’s ...
The Kansas Supreme Court previously suspended Renkemeyer’s law license in October 2015 after fraud allegations arose after the 2007 sale of his trucking company, Monarch. Renkemeyer and a co ...
Kansas Athletics infractions case: Bills from law firm hired to defend NCAA proceedings were sent to KU Medical Center. Here's why.
Fourth, citing the 2020 case Kahler v. Kansas, in which the Supreme Court allowed states to not adopt the insanity defense, the majority argues that determinations of whether homeless defendants possess the "mens rea" (guilty mind) to criminally violate the anti-camping ordinances should be left to elected state and local government officials ...
The attorneys who stayed on when Kris Kobach took office continue to do incredible work. We’ve successfully recruited attorneys from many states. In defense of Kris Kobach, Kansas attorney ...