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Defendant appealed from his conviction for attempted enticement of a child, after he attempted to persuade a 14-year-old to engage in sexual conduct. At trial, defendant unsuccessfully sought to elicit testimony from the victim’s sister about the victim’s tendency to ...

Tagged with: Attempted Enticement of a Child jury instructions

Plaintiff, a former peace officer, appealed the decision finding cause for discipline and revoking his license. Plaintiff engaged his wife in a physical altercation when he suspected her of adultery. Plaintiff’s license was revoked when the administrative hearing commission found ...

Tagged with: Licensed Peace Officer Revocation of License

Where a Kansas insurer sought a writ of prohibition directing the court to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction claims that included a bad-faith refusal to settle in a dispute arising from an auto accident in Missouri between a Missouri ...

Tagged with: bad faith Long-Arm Statute Personal Jurisdiction

In the 1970s, Kansas City began providing free waste collection to single-family residences. Owners of other residences excluded from free collection sued to challenge the constitutionality of the ordinance. They ultimately settled with the city, which agreed to either provide ...

Tagged with: Breach of Settlement Waste Collection

Defendant was convicted for driving while intoxicated and for driving while his license was revoked. Defendant filed a petition for post-conviction relief, arguing that appellate counsel failed to challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convictions Where the state ...

Tagged with: Failure to Challenge Sufficiency of Evidence Post-Conviction Relief

Where a taxpayer challenged the constitutional validity of Senate Bill 638 and 665, arguing that the bills violated the state’s procedural requirements, the trial court did not err in finding that the bills complied with the original purpose and single ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Validity-Single Senate Bills Subject Requirement

Where a county 911 dispatch sued the director of revenue in Jefferson County seeking a declaration about the meaning of statutory subsections in a dispute regarding the collection and calculation of prepaid wireless emergency-service charges, and the director sought a ...

Tagged with: Transfer Venue

Plaintiff’s residential subdivision was subject to indentures that included a restriction that “only one residence shall be erected on each lot” and that other lot owners were entitled to a right of first refusal on a proposed sale. Defendant acquired ...

Tagged with: Indentures Residential Subdivision

Police shot and killed a man, whose grandmother filed a wrongful-death suit, claiming to be his next of kin. The man was survived by his parents, both of whom were incarcerated at the time. The man’s father wrote to the ...

Tagged with: Motion To Intervene wrongful death

Where plaintiffs in a medical-negligence case challenged the judgment against them arguing that the trial court erred by refusing to give their attorney extra time so that he could ask the insurance question after he forgot to ask it during ...

Tagged with: Extra Time Insurance Question voir dire

(1)Where a juvenile challenged a circuit court finding that he committed an act that if committed by an adult would have constituted the felony of making a terrorist threat in the second degree, and the juvenile turned 18 and was ...

Tagged with: effectiveness of counsel Juvenile Proceeding mootness