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KS Supreme Court to Hold Special Session At Hiawatha

By Greg Bebermeyer

03/14/2016

Chief Justice Lawton Nuss

(KNZA)--The Kansas Supreme Court will conduct a special evening session on April 12th at Hiawatha High School.

According to a news release, its part of the ongoing outreach to familiarize Kansans with the high court, its work, and the overall role of the Kansas judiciary.

The court will be in session from 6:30 to about 8:00 that evening in the auditorium of Hiawatha High School.

It will be the Supreme Court’s first visit to Hiawatha in the court’s 155-year history and it will be the fourth time for the court to hear cases in the evening.

The public is invited to attend the special session to observe the court as it hears oral arguments in two cases to be announced prior to April. After the hearing concludes, the justices will greet the public in an informal reception in the school’s commons area.

The Supreme Court's has conducted several special sessions outside its Topeka courtroom since 2011 and they regularly draw crowds numbering in the hundreds.

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