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Agricultural operations are inherently subject to financial uncertainty. Drought, rising input costs, declining commodity prices, and livestock losses can quickly undermine even a carefully constructed farm debt repayment plan. For “family farmers” reorganizing under Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy
Lexie Gallo-Cook was quoted in a Law.com article about geopolitical disruptions and supply chain pressures driving legal disputes, arbitration, and antitrust litigation across global industries, including the fertilizer sector.Lexie says, “These are serious and detailed allegations – and only the
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Kansas water law rests on a fundamental principle: water rights are property rights, and the exercise of those rights is governed by the state’s system of prior appropriation. But what happens when efforts to address declining groundwater supplies impose
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President Trump’s October 5, 2026, Executive Order on diesel fuel tax relief has created new opportunities for farmers facing high fuel costs. The order directs federal agencies to provide temporary relief involving red-dyed diesel, including penalty relief for certain
On September 30, 2026, the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law hosted the inaugural Heartland Government Enforcement & Investigations Conference. The day-long program brought together federal prosecutors, judges, state regulators, in-house counsel, and private practitioners across seven substantive sessions
For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors. If they become state actors, they must comply with Constitutional restrictions–meaning the Constitutionally required freedoms of speech and press would extend to their user-authors
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Kansas royalty owners and oil-and-gas producers received important guidance from the Kansas Supreme Court concerning a recurring question in royalty litigation: When does natural gas become “marketable,” and who pays the costs incurred to get it to that point?
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, cannabis rescheduling cleared a courtroom hurdle. Michigan’s marijuana tax is the subject of discussion in the governor’s race. A
Tenure-Track Professor of Law
Washburn University School of Law Topeka, Kansas
We are especially interested in candidates who would teach constitutional law, administrative law, legislation, property, evidence, professional responsibility, or remedies. Washburn Law has a unitary tenure track with scholarship
