SOLOMON v. STATE

No. 114,573.

364 P.3d 536 (2015)

Larry T. SOLOMON, Chief Judge, 30th Judicial District of the State of Kansas, Appellee, v. STATE of Kansas, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

December 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen R. McAllister , solicitor general, argued the cause, and Jeffrey A. Chanay , chief deputy attorney general, and Dwight R. Carswell , assistant solicitor general, were with him on the briefs for appellant.

Pedro L. Irigonegaray , of Irigonegaray & Associates, of Topeka, argued the cause, and Elizabeth R. Herbert , of the same office, was with him on the briefs for appellee.

Steven C. Day , of Woodard, Hernandez, Roth & Day, LLC, of Wichita, and Amy S. Lemley , of Foulston Siefkin LLP, of Wichita, were on the brief for amicus curiae Kansas State Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Karen Michelle Donnelly of Copilevitz & Canter, LLC, of Kansas City, Missouri, Stephen Douglas Bonney , of ACLU Foundation of Kansas, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Micheline Z. Burger , of Longmont, Colorado, were on the brief for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Kansas.


In 1861, the people of the new State of Kansas adopted a constitution that assigned judicial power to a supreme court and to various lower courts:

"The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, justices of the peace, and such other...

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