Law Practice
At the time of his appointment by Brownback, the Kansas Democratic Party issued a release criticizing Brownback for the appointment. He represented the State of Kansas in litigation with environmentalists over the permitting of coal-fired power plants. Stegall represented eight American missionaries detained in Haiti following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. In 2008 he successfully defended the former executive director of the Kansas Republican Party in a dispute over Kansas campaign finance rules. In 2007 he was the lead counsel in the Kansas Supreme Court trial of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. In 2008, Stegall represented a group of residents opposed public financing of casino operations in Kansas City, Kansas.
In 2008 he represented a church that challenged local regulations on the church's operations as a homeless shelter. In 2009 he represented a teacher who claimed he had not been rehired because of his conservative political beliefs. As district attorney, he filed charges in 2009 against a county commissioner charged with theft by deception. and in 2010 was involved with a federal and state investigation of a distributor of "ethnobotanicals" who was accused of selling a synthetic cannabis.
He has worked as a counsel for Americans for Prosperity.
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