Unruh v. PURINA MILLS, LLC

I concur *1205with the result reached by the majority. I write separately in order to express my disagreement with the majority’s conclusion that the legislature intended to place the burden on the consumer of demonstrating malicious intent on the part of a supplier under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act (KCPA), K.S.A. 50-623 et seq.

As the majority correctly notes, a statute should not be read to add something that is not contained in the language of the statute. Casco v. Armour Swift-Eckrich, 283 Kan. 508, 521, 154 P.3d 494 (2007). “An appellate court’s first task is to ‘ascertain the…