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BAKER v. HAYDEN

No. 117,989.

490 P.3d 1164 (2021)

Linus BAKER, Appellant, v. Calvin HAYDEN, et al., Defendants, and Laura Brewer, in Her Capacity as Official Custodian of Records for the Tenth Judicial District, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 2, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linus L. Baker, appellant, argued the cause, and was on the briefs, pro se.

Joseph R. Colantuono , of Colantuono Bjerg Guinn Keppler LLC, of Overland Park, argued the cause, and Richard G. Guinn and Isaac Keppler , of the same firm, Stephen Phillips , assistant attorney general, and Derek Schmidt , attorney general, were with him on the briefs for appellee Laura Brewer.

Stephen Douglas Bonney , of ACLU Foundation of Kansas, of Overland Park, and Nolan Wright , legal intern, of the same foundation, were on the brief for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Kansas.

The parties ask us to answer whether the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA), K.S.A. 45-215 et seq., requires a Kansas district court to make audio records of open court proceedings available for public inspection. But we cannot reach this question because we conclude Linus Baker lost a stake in resolving that question at a point after he filed...

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