judiciary

An event at the Kansas Statehouse featured Floyd Bledsoe, a man who was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press as compiled by the KPR news staff.

The parents wanted the highest court in the nation to consider their challenge of a Kansas rule about local property tax money and how much of it may be allocated for education.

District Judge Larry Solomon's lawyers want the Kansas Supreme Court to invalidate the entire judicial selection law passed in 2014.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says the state is seeking the recusals because the justices have publicly opposed the law that's the subject of the case.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press as compiled by the KPR news staff.

Two lawsuits filed by district court judges against the state of Kansas are currently pending.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press.

Funding for the entire Kansas court system is now in jeopardy. A Shawnee County District Court judge has struck down a law related to the way chief judges are selected. But that law was tied to other legislation stating that all funding for the judicial branch would be stripped away if the first law was struck down.

Justice Kay McFarland was the first woman named to the Kansas Supreme Court, and the first woman named the court's Chief Justice.