DOS is a technology company that provides digital imaging solutions, along with general information technology services, in and around Sedgwick County, Kansas. DOS is also a licensed dealer and servicer for Ricoh and Konica Minolta, two companies that manufacture copiers and related office equipment. DOS's authorization as a dealer and servicer is limited to nine Kansas counties.

Bleie... More...    $0 (08-31-2018 - KS)

In October 2016, the district court approved a settlement resolving a business dispute between Grimwood and Farrell that included a mutual restraining order the parties had prepared and asked the court to enter. The district court did enter that mutual restraining order and, not quite six months later, Farrell filed a motion and affidavit asking for an order directing Grimwood to appear and show c... More...    $0 (08-10-2018 - KS)

Clemmons was committed to the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) on August 15, 1984. Under the ICC, the KDOC transferred Clemmons to the Illinois Department of Corrections on April 6, 1995, where he has been incarcerated ever since.

On January 23, 2017, Clemmons filed a pro se motion for a mandatory injunction under K.S.A. 60-902. In the motion, Clemmons noted that he had been hous... More...    $0 (07-03-2018 - KS)

Lance L. Franklin appeals sentences the Shawnee County District Court imposed on him following his guilty pleas in separate cases because he has to serve the prison time consecutively rather than concurrently—an outcome he says conflicts with the plea agreement. The sentences conform to the statutory guidelines and, therefore, cannot be appealed. We dismiss that part of Franklin's appeal. Franklin... More...    $0 (07-02-2018 - KS)

Jenny is the mother of the female minor child C.R.D., who was age 16 at the time the case was filed. In June 2017, Jenny filed a petition for injunctive relief in Ford County, alleging that Herman and Amber provided C.R.D. with cell phones and money despite knowing that Jenny was keeping those things from her daughter for the purpose of discipline. She requested that the court order the defendants... More...    $0 (05-27-2018 - KS)

Plaintiffs, families with children enrolled in the Douglas County School
District RE-1 (“DCSD”) and the American Humanist Association (“AHA”), filed this
action challenging various DCSD practices as violations of the Establishment Clause
and the Equal Access Act (“EAA”). They contend that DCSD has engaged in a
pattern and practice of promoting Christian fundraising efforts and perm... More...    $0 (06-20-2017 - KS)

Mary Anne Sause brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that
Officers Lee Stevens and Jason Lindsey (the defendants) violated her rights under the
First Amendment. The district court dismissed Sause’s complaint with prejudice for
failure to state a claim, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), and Sause appeals.
Because Sause fails to demonstrate that the contours of the right ... More...    $0 (06-20-2017 - KS)

This is the fourth school finance decision involving these parties and Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution, which imposes a duty on the legislature to "make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state." Kan. Const. art. 6, § 6(b). The plaintiffs filed suit in 2010 asserting that the State violated this constitutional requirement by inequitable and inadequate funding ... More...    $0 (03-03-2017 - KS)

At the outset, we acknowledge that when a district court has granted a motion to dismiss, "an appellate court must accept the facts alleged by the plaintiff as true, along with any inferences that can reasonably be drawn therefrom." Cohen v. Battaglia, 296 Kan. 542, 546, 293 P.3d 752 (2013). Accordingly, the following facts are those asserted by Platt in her district court petition.
Platt wa... More...    $0 (09-23-2016 - KS)

This is a civil trespass and conversion case in which plaintiffs seek monetary damages for the unauthorized subsurface mining of 855,500 tons of limestone. Bromley Quarry & Asphalt, Inc., admits it extracted some rock but disputes the extent of its liability. We must decide: (1) if the statute of limitations began to run because the conversion was reasonably ascertainable by the plaintiffs more ... More...    $0 (09-09-2016 - KS)

Stephen Michael Schicke sought habeas corpus relief under K.S.A. 60-1507 from the district court, claiming that because his lawyer failed to communicate with him, a favorable plea offer from the county attorney expired. Schicke claimed this failure to communicate denied him the opportunity to accept the offer. The district court denied Schicke's motion. Because the record reveals that Schicke and... More...    $0 (04-19-2016 - KS)

This is a school finance case concerning Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution, which imposes a duty on the legislature to "make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state." Kan. Const. art. 6, § 6(b). In Gannon v. State, 298 Kan. 1107, 1163, 319 P.3d 1196 (2014) (Gannon I), we confirmed that Article 6 contains both adequacy and equity requirements. It necessitates tha... More...    $0 (02-12-2016 - KS)

This appeal addresses the following question: Does a person who seeks to prevent a public agency from disclosing claimed private records have statutory standing to bring a cause of action under the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA), K.S.A. 45-215 et seq.? The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Company, Inc., (Eagle) presented a request for records to Wichita State University (WSU) under KORA. Upon... More...    $0 (11-09-2015 - KS)

The issue before this court is whether the panel abused its discretion in denying U.S.D. 512's motion to intervene. A motion to intervene under either the intervention as a matter of right or permissive standard can be defeated by untimely application. And we conclude U.S.D. 512's motion was untimely. Accordingly, we hold the panel did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion. Standard of r... More...    $0 (10-20-2015 - KS)

Ivan Reed received life-saving medical treatment at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Inc. (Via Christi), after his car collided with a Union Pacific Railroad train. Via Christi filed a hospital lien under K.S.A. 65-406 et seq. to collect on its bill for the services provided Reed. The lien initially purported to encumber $84,744.11 of Reed's $540,000 settlement with Union Pacific; Via Christi ... More...    $0 (12-20-2013 - KS)

In this appeal, environmental organization Sierra Club seeks judicial review of the decision of the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to issue an air emission source construction permit to Sunflower Electric Power Corporation (Sunflower) for the construction of an 895-megawatt coal-fired power plant, referred to as Holcomb 2, at the site of Sunflower's existing pl... More...    $0 (11-12-2013 - KS)

Weeks before eleven-year-old, 4’11,â€� 96-pound Brandon Blackmon arrived at the juvenile detention center in Sedgwick, Kansas, officials there made a new purchase: the Pro-Straint Restraining Chair, Violent Prisoner Chair Model RC-1200LX. The chair bore wrist, waist, chest, and ankle restraints all. In the months that followed, the staff made liberal use of their new acquisition on the center’... More...    $0 (11-08-2013 - KS)

This appeal arises from a bench trial in which the district court found that Appellant Meggie Chapman violated the “assisting and facilitating� provision of the Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 C.F.R. § 310.3(b).

The underlying consumer protection action was brought by the Federal Trade Commission and four states against several individual and corporate defendants who marketed and sold to ... More...    $0 (05-07-2013 - KS)

This is a $550,000 price dispute arising out of plaintiff's right of first refusal to purchase a Wichita waste transfer station from defendant. The catalyst was a third-party's agreement to buy the transfer station and an adjoining landfill as a package deal or to buy the landfill alone.

The district court judge granted summary judgment to defendant Ritchie Corporation (Ritchie). A panel ... More...    $0 (03-31-2013 - KS)

In this conversion action, Northern Natural Gas Company (Northern) claims ONEOK Field Services Company, L.L.C., ONEOK Midstream Gas Supply, L.L.C. (collectively ONEOK), Lumen Energy Corporation, and Lumen Midstream Partnership, LLC (collectively Lumen) wrongfully converted natural gas by purchasing gas from two producers, Nash Oil & Gas, Inc. (Nash) and L.D. Drilling, Inc. (L.D.), which operated w... More...    $0 (03-18-2013 - KS)

Plaintiff-Appellant Eric Rajala, Trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Generation Resources Holding Company, LLC (GRHC), appeals from the district court’s order granting motions to distribute (by Defendants-Appellees FreeStream Capital, LLC (FreeStream) and Lookout Windpower Holding Co., LLC (LWHC)) approximately $9 million held in escrow. This amount represents part of the purchase price of a win... More...    $0 (03-12-2013 - KS)

In this litigation, Appellants, plaintiffs below, brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the statutory scheme by which the state of Kansas funds its public schools. The district court dismissed their suit for lack of standing. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we conclude that the Appellants have standing because their alleged injury—unequal treatment by the stateâ... More...    $0 (10-18-2012 - KS)

In these consolidated interlocutory appeals, Defendants-Appellants, natural gas producers with wells in south central Kansas, challenge a preliminary injunction enjoining them from further gas production from those wells. The district court entered the preliminary injunction after concluding there was a substantial likelihood that Plaintiff-Appellee Northern Natural Gas Co. (“Northernâ€�) will p... More...    $0 (10-17-2012 - KS)

This appeal and cross-appeal concern a dispute over retail pricing practices by a fashion accessories company. Named plaintiff Sue O'Brien and a class of similarly situated consumers (O'Brien) sued the maker of Brighton handbags, other accessories, and luggage, defendant Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. (Brighton), alleging violations of the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (KRTA), K.S.A. 50-10... More...    $0 (05-04-2012 - KS)

Plaintiff Heavy Petroleum Partners (HPP) and Defendant J.J.R. of Kansas Limited (J.J.R.) entered into a contract whereby HPP would develop and use steam injection to increase production on an oil lease owned by J.J.R. Under the terms of the contract, J.J.R. would assign HPP a 75% working interest in the lease if HPP were able to produce oil on the lease in commercial quantities. Before HPP reached... More...    $0 (01-17-2012 - KS)

William Davis and Fern Stultz sued to enjoin the City of Leawood (Leawood) from imposing special assessments on their properties for the purpose of financing the improvement of State Line Road. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court granted the injunction on the ground that only city-at-large funds, not special assessments, may be used to improve a designated main trafficway, a... More...    $0 (04-21-1995 - KS)

This case involves a decision by the Board of County Commissioners of Wabaunsee County (Board) to amend its zoning regulations. Specifically, the Board permitted Small Wind Energy Conversion Systems (SWECS) but prohibited the placement of Commercial Wind Energy Conversion Systems (CWECS, i.e., commercial wind farms) in the county. Plaintiffs are owners of land in the county. They were later joined... More...    $0 (11-20-2011 - KS)