United States Tenth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 challenge to the "endorsement clause" of the Kansas Code of Judicial Conduct that generally prohibits a judge or judicial candidate from publicly endorsing or opposing another candidate for public office, plaintiff's appeal from summary judgment for defendants is dismissed where the notice of appeal was untimely.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/08/2010
• Published 06/08/2010

Judges

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

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs: Austin K. Vincent, Topeka, KS; James Bopp, Jr., Josiah Neeley, and Anita Y. Woudenberg, of Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen O. Phillips, Assistant Attorney General, Topeka, KS; George T. Patton, Jr., and Marisol Sanchez, of Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.