Kansas in the United States
Legal Materials
Internet links to government agencies, statutes, regulations, cases, etc. are posted byFindLaw and WashLaw. Primary legal materials are also available from Lexis andWestlaw. Cases are available free from Google Scholar back to 1950. Subscription services Versuslaw and Fastcase also have cases back to 1950. Supreme and appellate court cases are published in the Pacific Reporter.
To check the status of a pending bill, pull up the Bill History through the Legislatures’Bills page. For questions, call the Legislative reference desk at the State Library (800-432-3924 in state; 785-296-2149 from outside). Legislative hearings are not recorded or transcribed, but call the Division of Legislative Administration (785-296-0399) to get meeting minutes and any prepared testimony submitted by witnesses.
The State Library posts Executive Orders back to 1975.
The Kansas Bar Association publishes a number of useful treatises including theKansas Legal Research & Reference Guide and a series of subject-specific “Handbooks” such as the Kansas Appellate Practice Handbook, the Kansas Corporation Law & Practice Handbook, the Kansas Employment Law Handbook, etc.
For questions about Kansas legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, try calling the University of Kansas School of Law Library (785-864-3025) or the Kansas Judicial Center at the Kansas Supreme Court Law Library (785-296-3257).
Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.
For more primary law resources, see …
- U.S. State Law: Constitutional
- U.S. State Cases
- U.S. State Law: Judicial Rules
- U.S. State Law: Codes
- U.S. State Law: Statutes
- U.S. State Legislative: Bills
- U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative
- U.S. State Law: Municipal
Topics Covered by the Kansas Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the Kansas jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together Kansas statutory and case law.
Topics include:
- Kansas Statutes
- KS Cases & Case Law
- Kansas Legal Websites
- KS State Government Info
- Kansas Counties
- Kansas Cities
- Kansas Legislation
- KS Court Reporters/Depositions
- Kansas Legal Forms
- Kansas Courts
- KS State Bar/Legal Associations
- Kansas Law Enforcement
- Kansas Media Sources
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