Topeka ? A state judge has been holding a closed-door proceeding about Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline over abortion records.

Documents in the case have been sealed, and parties involved have been told not to discuss the case publicly.

“The lawsuit arose from an inquisition which is sealed by statute and which involves patient medical records that are statutorily sealed,” said Ron Keefover, a Kansas Supreme Court spokesman.

He said the state Supreme Court appointed State District Court Judge David King, of Leavenworth, “to conduct hearings to get answers to factual questions.” King is the chief judge of the 1st judicial district.

“The court hasn’t disclosed what those questions are,” Keefover said. “He (King) will make a report to the court, and they will include that in their deliberations.”

King had scheduled proceedings in the matter for three days before Thanksgiving and two days this week in a courtroom in the Kansas Judicial Center. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri filed the lawsuit against Kline in June.

Kline, the former Kansas attorney general, fought for years to obtain abortion records from the Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park and a Wichita clinic operated by Dr. George Tiller. The Kansas Supreme Court granted Kline access to redacted copies of the records.

In 2006, Kline, a Republican, was defeated by Attorney General Paul Morrison, a Democrat, who took over the investigation and found no wrongdoing on Planned Parenthood’s part.

After he was defeated in the attorney general’s race, Kline was selected by Republican precinct committee people to become Johnson County district attorney. In October, he filed a 107-count complaint against the Planned Parenthood clinic. Clinic leaders have denied any wrongdoing.