Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and aggravated battery.

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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. APPELLATE JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS. The case addresses whet... More...    $0 (03-03-2025 - KS)

Hays, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant on assault and battery charges.

This case arises from the State's interlocutory appeal in Christopher Adams' criminal case. Adams faces multiple counts of battery based on allegations that he punched two men and pushed his girlfriend, Stephanie Lang, outside a bar. When questioned at the scene, Lang identified Adams as the att... More...    $0 (02-15-2025 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a dental malpractice claim.

This is an action for dental malpractice. In a previous suit, Curtis Rodina sued Timothy T. Taylor, D.D.S., P.A.-the dental practice-and Sonya Cummings-an owner of the practice. He was awarded a default judgment for economic and noneconomic damages in the total amount of $285,000. Rodina th... More...    $0 (02-20-2025 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff.

This case stems from the termination of the independent contractor
relationship between Plaintiff-Appellant, Dr. Kolette Smith, and Defendants-
Appellees, Brian Williams and Labette County Medical Center (“Labette Health”)
(collectively “Defendants”). Dr. Smith appeals from the district court’s grant of... More...    $0 (12-18-2024 - KS)

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In the circumstances of this case, the district court properly permitted a witness to assert her constitutional privilege against self-incrimination to avoid testifying at the defendant's criminal trial ... More...    $0 (04-19-2024 - KS)

On August 14, 2018, Alberto Alfaro and Enrique Umana Somoza were
outside a home in Wichita trying to jump start Alfaro's truck. Cardell Turner pulled up
beside them in his car, pointed a gun in the direction of Somoza and Alfaro, and pulled
the trigger. The gun did not fire. Turner drove away, and no one was harmed. The State
charged Turner with two counts of attempted first-d... More...    $0 (02-02-2024 - KS)

Ottawa, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer presented the Defendant charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and felony possession of a firearm.

In 2013, Andrew Stout and two friends, including Steven White, lived at Stout's
house in rural Franklin County. Flack, another friend of Stout's, occasionally spent time
there. Flack brought a shotgun with him everywhere, usua... More...    $0 (01-19-2024 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas consumer credit lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on a Fair Credit Report Act violation theory.

Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681, et seq.

"The Act (Title VI of the Consumer Credit Protection Act) protects information collected by consumer reporting agencies such as credit bureaus, medical information companies and tenant scree... More...    $0 (09-11-2023 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a job discrimination theory (sexual harassment).

Plaintiff was formerly employed at a McDonald's franchise restaurant in Pittsburg, Kansas owned by Defendant. Plaintiff contends Defendant subjected her to employment discrimination on account of sex, including harassment in the form of a hostile work enviro... More...    $0 (07-19-2023 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with using guns, death threats and racial slurs to intimidate Black people and interfere with multiple federally-protected rights.

On July 27, 2022, Austin Schoemann, 30, of Wichita, brandished a firearm and used racial slurs in order to threaten two Black juveniles, Victims 1 and 2, while they were entering a QuikTrip... More...    $0 (05-30-2023 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas personal injury car wreck lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident.

Plaintiff Jamey Fuller was operating a motor vehicle westbound on X Road in Jewell County, Kansas, when Defendant, who was operating a motor vehicle eastbound on the sa... More...    $1 (10-11-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas criminal lawyer represented Defendant indicted by a federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a Kansas man on multiple charges for alleged crimes related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which is a federal law providing financial relief to businesses suffering economic losses because of the COVIID-19 pandemic. Under the CARES Act, the Small Business ... More...    $0 (08-19-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with one count of possession of a false social security card/number.

According to court documents, Isabel Xorxe Tay, 35, is accused of using the name and security number of another person to apply for and obtain employment at a company in Dodge City, Kansas, under the guise of being a United States citizen.

The Bu... More...    $0 (07-15-2022 - KS)

Wichita, Kansas civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on breach of contract theories.


The appellants are some of the corn producers who took the first track, filing individual actions. (We call these corn producers the "Kellogg farmers.") The Kellogg farmers alleged that their former attorneys had failed to disclose the benefits of participating as class... More...    $0 (07-26-2022 - KS)

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted robbery of a Kansas City, Kansas convenience store in which a clerk was shot in the face.


Jakel Webster, 26, of Kansas City Jakel Webster, 26, of Kansas City was sentenced to 212 months in prison.

On April 28, 2020, Webster and Jorden Brownlee, 22, of Lenexa entered a Quick Shop on Metr... More...    $0 (06-10-2022 - KS)