LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF KANSAS v. SCHWAB

No. 125,084.

525 P.3d 803 (2023)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF KANSAS, Loud Light, Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Inc., and Topeka Independent Living Resource Center, Appellants, v. Scott SCHWAB, in His Official Capacity as Kansas Secretary of State, and Kris Kobach, in His Official Capacity as Kansas Attorney General, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion Filed March 17, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pedro L. Irigonegaray , Nicole Revenaugh , Jason A. Zavadil , and J. Bo Turney , of Irigonegaray, Turney, & Revenaugh, LLP, of Topeka, for appellants.

Elisabeth C. Frost , Henry J. Brewster , Mollie A. DiBrell , and Marisa A. O'Gara , pro hac vice, of Elias Law Group LLP, of Washington, D.C., for appellants Loud Light, Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Topeka Independent Living Resource Center, Charley Crabtree, Patricia Lewter, and Faye Huelsmann.

David Anstaett , pro hac vice, of Perkins Coie LLP, of Madison, Wisconsin, for appellant League of Women Voters of Kansas.

Bradley J. Schlozman and Scott R. Schillings , of Hinkle Law Firm LLC, of Wichita, Brant M. Laue and Anthony J. Powell , solicitors general, and Kris Kobach , attorney general, for appellees.

Before Warner, P.J., Green and Hill, JJ.


The history of the Kansas Territory joining the union of states is filled with grave struggle. In the Kansas Nebraska Act, 33 Cong. Ch. 59, 10 Stat. 277 (1854), Congress called for the residents of the Kansas Territory to decide if their new state would be free or allow the enslavement of people. The residents of the territory decided...

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