Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 20-3019

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.

th or 29th judicial districts; supreme court rules. With regard to proceedings within the jurisdiction of the court of appeals, the supreme court shall prescribe by rule procedures for filing with judges of the court of appeals residing in the eighteenth or twenty-ninth judicial districts such motions or other pleadings as the supreme court may designate and the supreme court shall prescribe rules for hearings on such pleadings. The supreme court shall designate from the membership of the court of appeals such judges as may be necessary to be present in the eighteenth and twenty-ninth judicial districts to accept and act upon such pleadings.