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Kansas Supreme Court Suspends Law License of Former Attorney General

published October 21, 2013

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The Kansas Supreme Court indefinitely suspended the law license of the state's former attorney general on Friday, making a finding of ethical misconduct in his pursuit of charges against abortion providers in the state. It is to be noted that the indefinite suspension is a lenient outcome in the matter, given that the Disciplinary Administrator had argued for disbarment of the former Attorney General of Kansas, Phillip Kline.

The court's opinion mentioned that the disciplinary hearing panel in the matter concluded that Kline committed multiple violations of the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct while serving as the Kansas Attorney General and later as Johnson County District Attorney. The court found "clear and convincing evidence that Kline committed 11 KRPC violations."


The evidence before the court included biased and fundamentalist prosecution by Kline over a period of 6 years in six separate courts including misconduct related to a grand jury proceeding in Johnson County. Most of the misconduct pertained to Kline's investigation of abortion clinics in the state.

At the time of the initiation of the disciplinary hearing, the court notes, Kline's law license was suspended due to his failure to pay the annual registration fee at the bar. Kline testified that he had refused to pay the registration fees voluntarily. He later paid the fees and was reinstated to the bar.

However, during the proceedings, Kline clearly stated, "I don't believe I should be here and I didn't want to send you money," referring to his failure to pay registration fees. Mentioning that he is a law professor at Liberty University in Virginia, the former Kansas Attorney General stated that he no longer wished to practice law in Kansas, but wished to practice in Virginia.

After becoming Attorney General, Kline had made a "sea change" in reporting requirements for health care providers where any health care provider aware of the pregnancy of a patient under the age of 16 was required to report it as an instance of sexual abuse or risk conviction of a Class B misdemeanor.

This August, Kansas doctor Ann Kristin Neuhaus alleged that Kline had tricked her into handing over private patient medical records. Neuhaus has been forced into poverty after the state removed her medical license.

A Wichita doctor, George Tiller, was also persecuted as a subject of Kline's investigations, before Tiller was ultimately killed for providing abortions, in 2009.

published October 21, 2013

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