The Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced on April 14, 2020 a new testing facility license will be issued to Green Precision Analytics, Inc. Attorney Chris McHugh of Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC represented Green Precision Analytics, Inc. during the appeals process. This decision represents one of the first appeals settled by DHSS. […]
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, front line healthcare professionals in Kansas will not be hindered from providing critical services due to their licenses lapsing or other obstacles to renewing their licenses. To help combat the spread of the coronavirus, many state agency employees responsible for handling license renewals are under stay at home orders, or doing […]
On March 26, 2020, United States Attorney General William Barr issued a memorandum to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) addressing the release of some BOP inmates to home confinement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. News outlets quickly began reporting the memo with headlines like this one from cbsnews.com: “Barr tells federal prisons to send […]
In his article, “Should marijuana be declared an essential need in Missouri?” attorney Chris McHugh talks about the business struggles in this budding industry and the uncertainty licensees are facing. While Missouri has not yet opened any dispensaries, if the State were to deem marijuana an essential need, licensees would have the much needed support […]
COVID-19’s Impact on Court Ordered Parenting Plans and Custody Arrangements So much has changed since the new coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, emerged in December 2019. Kansas and Missouri families, in particular, have been and will continue to be affected by school closings and shelter-in-place orders (such as those beginning at 12:01 a.m. […]
On Friday, February 7, a Sedgwick County jury found former Wichita police officer Samuel Dugo not guilty of aggravated battery. Attorney Jess Hoeme defended Dugo on the charge stemming from an auto accident on March 16, 2018. Dugo, a Wichita police officer at the time, was responding to a burglary call when his patrol vehicle […]