October 2017 News Releases

	11/11/2017 Longtime Coffey County judge to retire in November TOPEKA — Chief Judge Phillip M. Fromme, who has served in the 4th Judicial District for 34 years, will retire November 30.Fromme was named a district judge in 1996 and since 2003 has been chief judge of the 4th Judicial District, which is composed of Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, and Osage counties. He has overseen criminal and domestic cases ...
	10/31/2017 Chief judge of 11th Judicial District to retire TOPEKA — Chief Judge A.J. Wachter of the 11th Judicial District has announced his retirement December 18, 2017.Wachter, who oversees the district from the Crawford County Judicial Center in Pittsburg, has been a district court judge since 2002 and chief judge since 2013.The 11th Judicial District is composed of Cherokee, Labette, and Crawford ...
	10/30/2017 Kansas Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments at Sterling College TOPEKA — A three-judge panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Tuesday, November 14, in Sterling College's Heritage Hall in Sterling.Judge Kathryn Gardner will be joined by Judges Michael Buser and Gordon Atcheson to hear oral arguments in five cases. Three will be heard starting at 9 a.m. with the remaining two ...
	10/18/2017 Sedgwick County judge appointed to sit with Kansas Supreme Court TOPEKA — District Judge John Kisner Jr. of the 18th Judicial District has been appointed to sit with the Kansas Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in one case on the court's October 25 docket. After hearing oral arguments, Kisner will join Supreme Court justices in their deliberations and decision drafting.“I am pleased that Judge ...
	10/13/2017 4th Judicial District Nominating Commission seeks to fill district judge vacancy in Coffey County TOPEKA — The 4th Judicial District Nominating Commission is seeking candidates to fill a district judge vacancy in Coffey County created by the upcoming November 30 retirement of Judge Phillip M. Fromme.The 4th Judicial District is composed of Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, and Osage counties.Justice Eric S. Rosen, the Supreme Court departmental ...
	10/12/2017 Kansas Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee member appointed TOPEKA — Marc White of Topeka was appointed to complete a vacant term on the Kansas Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee.Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss of the Kansas Supreme Court appointed him to serve through June 30, 2021.The Kansas Child Support Guidelines are rules that judges and hearing officers follow to decide how much child ...
	10/09/2017 Kansas Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments October 17 and 18 at Hugoton Middle School and Keply Middle School, Ulysses TOPEKA—A three-judge panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments at 9 a.m. Tuesday, October 17, at Hugoton Middle School, and at 9 a.m. Wednesday, October 18, at Keply Middle School in Ulysses.The hearings will take place in the school auditoriums in both locations before an audience of area high school students. The public ...
	10/02/2017 Supreme Court issues decision in Case No. 113,267: Luke Gannon, et al v. State of Kansas, et al. The Kansas Supreme Court today issued a decision in Gannon v. State. The court held that the 2017 legislature's new school finance law violated the adequacy and equity requirements of Article 6 of the Constitution of the people of Kansas, which imposes a duty on the legislature to "make suitable provision for finance of the educational ...