A former Douglas County district attorney and her deputy are immune from a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman whose conviction for killing a baby was overturned, a judge ruled.
Carrody Buchhorn, of Lawrence, claimed that the two attorneys — Suzanne Valdez and Joshua Seiden — fabricated a knowingly false cause of death for 9-month-old Oliver Ortiz, maliciously prosecuted her and withheld ...
A frequent public commenter who has filed multiple lawsuits against government entities claiming that his constitutional rights have been violated will have to pay the cost of litigation and reasonable attorney’s fees after his suit against a public official in Elk County was thrown out by a judge.
Those costs and fees, according to the defendant in that lawsuit, total $14,518.
The defendant is Elk County ...
A former Lawrence resident who was arrested Saturday on the Capitol steps in Topeka was trespassing in a permit-only area and refused to obey all police demands that he leave, according to information Friday from the Kansas Highway Patrol.
On Monday, the Journal-World reached out to police about why Justin Spiehs was arrested at the "No Kings" rally, which drew thousands of people to Topeka — and millions to ...
The "Jane Doe" plaintiffs suing LMH Health claiming that their personal information, including nude medical photos, was improperly accessed by a physical therapist at the University of Kansas Health System must use their real names in the lawsuit or it will be dismissed, a federal judge recently ruled.
As the Journal-World reported in April, two women using the pseudonyms Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 initiated a ...
As thousands of people peacefully protested at a "No Kings" rally in Topeka, a former Lawrence resident known for profanity-laced commenting at public meetings was arrested in front of the crowd on the Statehouse steps.
Authorities have so far been mum on the circumstances surrounding the arrest, and charges have not appeared in the state's online court records.
The man, Justin Paul Spiehs, 43, of Johnson ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday again considered — and again denied — a defendant’s motion to have his confession to child sex crimes suppressed from ever being heard by a jury of his peers.
Hatem Chahine, the attorney for 22-year-old defendant Mateo Clavel Wills, a former Raintree Montessori School employee accused of sexually abusing a 3- and 4-year-old more than three years ago, asked Judge Sally ...
