Topeka ? An attorney for a Kansas doctor sanctioned over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions says a court battle she’s started to regain her medical license is likely to be lengthy.

Kelly Kauffman, an attorney representing Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus, said Thursday it’s likely to take two years or more to settle the challenge filed by Neuhaus in Shawnee County District Court.

Neuhaus hopes to overturn the State Board of Healing Arts decision in June to revoke her medical license.

The board ratified an administrative judge’s earlier finding that Neuhaus didn’t perform adequate mental health exams on 11 young patients she referred in 2003 to the late George Tiller, the Wichita physician who performed late-term abortions. Neuhaus filed her court petition last month and strongly disputes the allegations.