United States Tenth Circuit

In a First Amendment challenge to Kansas state judicial ethics canons, a preliminary injunction entered in favor of Plaintiffs is vacated, where the Kansas Supreme Court changed the canons while the appeal was pending and thus rendered the action moot.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2009
• Published 04/17/2009

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, EBEL, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• George T. Patton, Jr. (Marisol Sanchez, Washington, D.C.;   and Stephen O. Phillips, Assistant Attorney General, Topeka, KS, with him on the briefs), Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, Washington, D.C., for the Defendants-Appellants., James Bopp, Jr. (Thomas J. Marzen, Anita Y. Wondenberg, and Josiah Neeley, with him on the briefs), Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for the Plaintiffs-Appellees.