Legislature Vindicates KJI’s Call to Action May 3, 2021 – Douglas County business owner, Peach Madl, dismissed her lawsuit advocating for business owners’ right to an immediate due process hearing when impacted by a local health order. The Douglas County Health Officer previously created a bar curfew regime...
Students who received a quarantine notice from the Olathe school district may be able to return to the classroom, despite not isolating for a full 14 days. That’s the upshot of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment’s response to a letter from Kansas Justice Institute Litigation Director Sam MacRoberts, questioning the...
More than 200 students and teachers are in quarantine after an alleged COVID outbreak in the Olathe school district, but it’s unclear who issued the order or whether it’s an order or just a recommendation. The purported quarantine order states it came from the “Olathe...
Approximately 100 Timber Creek elementary students who had allegedly been ordered into quarantine by their school are returning to their education after a letter from the Kansas Justice Institute questioning the legality of the order. On Sept. 18, 2020, Kansas Justice Institute litigation director Sam MacRoberts sent a letter to Timber...
Kansas Justice Institute litigation director Sam MacRoberts this morning sent a letter to Timber Creek Elementary School in USD 229 Blue Valley, questioning the legality of a reported COVID quarantine of more than 100 students. Parents received an email yesterday from Leasi Fry on behalf of Principal...
A letter from the Kansas Justice Institute to the Riley County Board of Health brought a swift victory for liberty, convincing the Board to make COVID contact tracing voluntary instead of mandatory. Like the Sentinel, Kansas Justice Institute is owned by Kansas Policy Institute. Sam MacRoberts, litigation director for the Kansas Justice...
BY JOHN HANNA ASSOCIATED PRESS POSTED MAY 11, 2020 TOPEKA, KS (AP) — State and local orders still in place for checking the spread of the novel coronavirus in Kansas are facing legal challenges from the state's attorney general and business owners. Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday...
One small town in Southeast Kansas looked at a restrictive cruise night ban from their local government and said, “No, enough!” And a little help from the Kansas Justice Institute made it stick. The cruise night ban was issued even though it was not planned for anyone to leave...
If people are allowed to go to bars, restaurants, libraries, schools, and factories (with suitable social distancing), should they also be allowed to go to church? EUGENE VOLOKH | 4.12.2020 8:50 AM From a memorandum released Wednesday by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt (see also an argument the same day written...
By Karen Kidd | Apr 7, 2020 TOPEKA, Kan. (Legal Newsline) – The Kansas Department of Health's source for GPS tracking revealed a certain lack of social distancing in the state but also prompted "grave concerns" from a liberty-minded public interest firm. "Kansas is using publicly available data as a...