Hellebust v. Brownback

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This court has found that the method by which the Kansas State Board of Agriculture (“KSBA”) and the Secretary of the KSBA are selected violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution because the KSBA “exercises general governmental powers which affect the' lives of all Kansans but its membership is selected by a narrowly limited voting process.” Hellebust v. Brownback, 824 F.Supp. 1511 (D.Kan.1993). The matter of an appropriate remedy was the subject of a hearing held on June 30,…