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Piper High School – girls basketball vs. Lansing
– Piper varsity won 62-28, JV won 53-51, and 9th lost 15-45
Piper High School – boys basketball at Spring Hill Tournament
– Piper varsity 51, Spring Hill 65
Piper varsity 61, Veritas Christian 24
Tonight: boys basketball at Spring Hill Tournament
Piper varsity boys vs. Sumner Academy
– From Doug Key, Piper High School activities director
A collision resulted in an injury about 10:22 a.m. Jan. 22 at I-635 near Kansas Avenue in Kansas City, Kan.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report, a Mercedes-Benz was traveling northbound on I-635 when the accident occurred. The Mercedes had a flat tire and was driving below the minimum speed of 40 mph, the trooper’s report stated.
A Toyota 4Runner also traveling northbound on I-635 did not see the Mercedes, and struck it in the rear, according to the trooper’s report.
The driver of the Mercedes, a 46-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman, had a possible injury, according to the trooper’s report. She was not wearing a safety restraint, the report stated.
A passenger in the Mercedes, a 47-year-old woman from Des Moines, Iowa, was injured and taken to the hospital, the report stated. She was wearing a safety restraint, according to the report.
The driver of the 4Runner, a 30-year-old man from Kansas City, Mo., was not injured, the report stated.
None of the vehicles was involved in a police pursuit, the report stated.
Topeka — An equally divided Kansas Court of Appeals issued its decision today in the appeal from a temporary injunction granted by a Shawnee County district judge barring the enforcement of a law passed by the 2015 Kansas Legislature that places restrictions on a procedure commonly used in second-term abortions.
The plaintiffs, Herbert C. Hodes, M.D., and Traci Lynn Nauser, M.D., sought to prevent the new law from taking effect July 1, 2015.
When an appellate court is equally divided, the judgment of the lower court is affirmed. In this case, seven appellate judges voted in favor of affirming the district court’s order and seven voted in favor of reversing it. As a result, the district court’s order granting the temporary injunction is affirmed.
In granting the temporary injunction, the district court ruled, for the first time in a Kansas court, that the Kansas Constitution provides a right to an abortion independent of the right found in the United States Constitution. The district court also ruled that the plaintiffs established a substantial likelihood of success on their claim that the new law violates their patients’ right to abortion protected by the Kansas Constitution.
The 2015 law that was passed by the Kansas Legislature and signed by Gov. Sam Brownback outlawed the most common method of second trimester abortions. Before the law’s July 1 effective date, a state district court entered a temporary injunction that kept the law from taking effect.
The Court of Appeals heard the case en banc, meaning that all 14 judges on the court participated in deciding the appeal. In today’s ruling, the equally divided appellate court upheld the district court’s temporary injunction.
In an opinion authored by Judge Steve Leben, six judges agreed with the district court that the Kansas Constitution provides the same protection for abortion rights as the United States Constitution. These judges also found there is a substantial likelihood that the new Kansas law is unconstitutional, so the district court properly granted the temporary injunction. In a concurring opinion, Judge G. Gordon Atcheson also agreed that the district court’s temporary injunction should be upheld.
In an opinion authored by Chief Judge Thomas E. Malone, seven judges found that the Kansas Constitution does not provide an independent state-law right to an abortion. These judges would set aside the temporary injunction granted by the district court.
Today’s decision is online at www.kscourts.org/Cases-and-Opinions/opinions/CtApp/2016/20160122/114153.pdf.
