In 2016, the Leavenworth County Board of Commissioners approved a five-year employment contract with … the county’s human resources director. After a change in commissioners, the board filed an action in the Leavenworth County District Court to have the contract declared void. The board later terminated the HR director, and she counterclaimed to enforce the contract’s exceptionally generous severance package. The district court found the contract to be unenforceable as a legally impermissible attempt by one elected composition of the board to bind a later composition of that board. Copeland has appealed. The district court correctly applied settled Kansas law to undisputed material facts in granting the board’s motion for summary judgment. We, therefore, affirm the decision.
Read the Kansas Court of Appeals opinion.
