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• Collins v. Johnson County, Kansas, (10th Cir. 2002)

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS TENTH CIRCUIT WILLIAM P. COLLINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHNS...

• Federal Circuits

• Fitch Rates Johnson County, Kansas' Unlimited Tax GOs 'AAA'.

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned its 'AAA' rating to the Johnson County, Kansas' (the county) $20.925 million internal improvement bonds, series...

• Business Wire
• November 17, 2009

• Federal Jury in Kansas Sides with Former Johnson County Worker

A federal jury in Kansas awarded $774,000 to a former Johnson County employee who claimed he was fired for blowing the whistle on fellow employees. According to the petition, filed in the District of Kansas, Paul Palmerin worked for the county for 11 years in its wastewater department. In late 2008 and early 2009, Palmerin reported "unlawful, unsafe, and improper conduct" by county employees, including what he said were safety violations along with vandalism and theft of employees' property.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• July 15, 2011

• Susan Lanman, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Johnson County, Kansas, Defendant-Appellee., 393 F.3d 1151 (10th Cir. 2004)

Lawrence L. Ferree, III, (Kirk T. Ridgway with him on the brief) Ferree, Bunn, O'Grady & Rundberg, Chtd., Overland Park, KS, for Defendant-Appellee. ...

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• Johnson County, Kansas, Faces Merit System Change

Missouri isn't the only state facing challenges to its system of selecting judges by merit. Several retired Kansas judges and legal officials held a press conference Monday to decry a proposal to move Johnson County, Kan., one of that state's most populous counties, to a system of direct elections for judges.

• Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press
• September 05, 2008

• Will Kansas Suit Curb Planned Parenthood Abortions?

Johnson County Kansas District Attorney Phill Kline may become the first prosecutorto bring down a local Planned Parenthood (PP) operation on a host of criminal charges, including failures to report sexual abuse of minors, criminal late-term abortions and forged records. [...] Kline alleges-and has taken to a grand jury-evidence that the Planned Parenthood chapter routinely fails to report sexual abuse of children and its doctors perform illegal partial-birth abortions. second, this particular Planned Parenthood operation, which denies all these charges, has, with its Kansas political and media allies, tried to discredit arid destroy Kline.

• Human Events
• August 24, 2009

• Johnson County, Kansas Connects with the Community.

County Introduces New Legislative Information Management System SALT LAKE CITY -- Johnson County, Kansas announces the launch of a county-wide Legis...

• Business Wire
• July 09, 2008

• Gop Activist Disparages Topeka's Kni

A Republican Party activist from Johnson County referred to the Kansas Neurological Institute for profoundly disabled adults as a "taxpayer draining piece of garbage" in political correspondence intended to undermine the state Senate candidacy of Rep. Joe Patton. Michael Egan, a GOP precinct committeeman from Shawnee, confirmed authorship of the email casting doubt on whether Patton deserved support of conservatives in the August primary against incumbent Sen. Vicki Schmidt. Patton and Schmidt are Topeka Republicans.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• October 23, 2011

• Vincent Koopman, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Water District No. 1 of Johnson County, Kansas, R.L. Chandler, Ralph G. Wyss and Roger Fairbanks, Defendants-Appellees., 972 F.2d 1160 (10th Cir. 1992)

Stephen J. Dennis of Niewald, Waldeck & Brown, Overland Park, Kan., for plaintiff-appellant. Wilson E. Speer and Daniel M. Zimmerman of Speer, Austin...

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• Vincent Koopman, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Water District No. 1 of Johnson County, Kansas, and Roger Fairbanks, Defendants-Appellees., 41 F.3d 1417 (10th Cir. 1994)

Stephen J. Dennis of Dennis & Battis, P.A., Fairway, KS, for plaintiff-appellant. Daniel M. Zimmerman (Marty T. Jackson with him on the brief), of Sp...

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