Opinion ID: 2377101
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Court of Appeals Show Cause and Transfer to This Court

Text: Later in July, the Court of Appeals ruled after a show cause proceeding that its jurisdiction over the appeal in this criminal prosecution extended only to Judge Tatum's rulings arising from the May 27, 2008, hearing. At the time, the Court of Appeals understood this to mean it could review only the rulings on the two later KDHE subpoenas. At the Court of Appeals suggestion, on August 7, 2008, Kline's office filed a pleading demonstrating that Judge Tatum also had ruled on the subpoenas to Judge Anderson and Cavanaugh as part of the May 27, 2008, hearing. Kline did not, however, take issue with the Court of Appeals' decision that it lacked jurisdiction over the Saadi subpoena. The brief of appellant, filed in this criminal prosecution on September 9, 2008, also did not challenge this aspect of the appellate jurisdiction decision. This court transferred this interlocutory appeal from the Court of Appeals on December 22, 2008. On January 29, 2009, while this interlocutory appeal was awaiting a May 2009 oral argument, this court dismissed Morrison v. Anderson. The dismissal order was silent on the status of the April 4, 2008, protective order that had been entered in that case. At oral argument before this court, counsel from the Johnson County District Attorney's office, where Kline had been replaced by Stephen M. Howe, said he did not know whether the April 4 protective order remained in effect.