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One of the most complex problems lawmakers must resolve during the COVID-19 pandemic is what to do about criminal defendants awaiting trial, especially when disruptions to courts’ standard operating procedures occur. Member John Rapp and summer law clerk Ben Bigham authored an article for the Kansas Bar Journal titled ‘Covid-19 […]

Update as of March 27, 2020: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) was signed in to law on Friday, March 27, 2020. It contains important changes in the Bankruptcy Code aimed at assisting small businesses and consumers. Those changes include the following. Amending the Small Business Reorganization […]

KANSAS ESTABLISHES “STAY HOME” ORDER – EFFECTIVE MARCH 30, 2020 On March 28, 2020, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued Executive Order No. 20-16 to be effective March 30, 2020.  The order notes that several Kansas counties have already issued differing “stay home” orders and seeks to “create uniformity in the […]

This is an update to our previous post on March 20, 2020: Foreclosures and Evictions during COVID-19 Governor Laura Kelly has issued a new Executive Order that rescinds, and clarifies, Executive Order 20-06 previously issued on March 17, 2020. The new Executive Order, Order No. 20-10, issued on March 23, […]

Both the State of Kansas and the federal government have implemented temporary restrictions on access to courts that affect many businesses’ and individual’s rights. On March 17, 2020, Governor Laura Kelly signed Executive Order 20-06. It became effective on March 17, 2020 at 12:01 p.m. In the order, the Governor […]

March 13, 2020 – Eric W. Barth  On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. This is the first time that the WHO has labeled an outbreak a pandemic since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. In an effort to contain […]