Shawnee County this month emerged victorious in a lawsuit filed against it in 2016 by a deaf woman who alleged the county arrested her without probable cause and failed to accommodate her disability, the county announced this week in a news release.
The lawsuit officially came to a close in the county’s favor with the passing of the Nov. 15 deadline by which plaintiff Carolyn Hans could have appealed a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in the county’s favor to the U.S. Supreme Court, said Shawnee County counselor Jim Crowl.
Hans — who was born deaf, to deaf parents — in June 2016 filed the nine-count suit alleging various violations of her civil rights, Kansas torts law and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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