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No case for inmates who say they got wrong COVID vaccine
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) - Inmates who claim they were injected with the wrong Covid-19 vaccine have no case against the state of Wyoming, the state’s highest court ruled, citing a federal law that sharply limits the ability to sue over emergency medical procedures. -
Dogs are property, Wyoming court rules after St. Bernards die in trapper's snares
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) - A Wyoming family can’t win emotional damages from watching their pet St. Bernard dogs die in snares set by a trapper, the state’s Supreme Court ruled, because state law doesn’t allow emotional damages over the loss of property. -
Dad v. Son: Lawsuit over fall in yard fails thanks to evidence of alcohol consumption
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) - A father who sued his son after falling in the son’s back yard lost his bid to revive the case after the Wyoming Supreme Court refused to reverse a jury decision the father argued was tainted by testimony about how much beer he’d had to drink that night. -
Judgment against road work contractor affirmed in case of fatal head-on collision
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) – It was not unreasonable for a Wyoming jury to determine two companies botched traffic control at a paving job, leading to the death of a man in a head-on collision. -
Rancher's stand in court over grizzly attacks on cattle falls short
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) – A Wyoming rancher has failed to convince the state Supreme Court that he should be paid more than what is established for the death of cattle due to the mismanagement of the grizzly bear population. -
A missing bat caused a family to pay $83K for rabies vaccines and sue their city
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) – An evasive bat is the subject of a lawsuit that recently made it all the way to the Wyoming Supreme Court. -
Student's lawsuit fails to hold school accountable for drainage pipes
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) – A Wyoming school district isn’t liable for the brain injury suffered by a student when he allegedly fell and struck his head on PVC pipe an elementary school had placed across a walkway to divert water. -
Wyoming Supreme Court issues ruling in case of man who brought gun to Republican Convention
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) – The Wyoming Supreme Court has reversed a district court's ruling in favor of University of Wyoming in a suit filed by a man who was cited for bringing a semi-automatic pistol onto the campus during the state's Republican convention. -
WYOMING SUPREME COURT: Judicial Nominating Commission Announces Vacancy in Circuit Court, Third Judicial District Lincoln County, Wyoming
Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael K. Davis, who acts as Chairman of the Judicial Nominating Commission, announced that Circuit Court Judge Frank J. Zebre, Third Judicial District, will be retiring effective May 1, 2019. -
WYOMING SUPREME COURT: Judge Tom Harrington, Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Judicial District, will retire on January 7, 2019.
Judge Tom Harrington, Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Judicial District, will retire on January 7, 2019. -
Wyo. governor appoints new justice to state SC
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) -- Catherine M. Fox has been appointed the newest member of the Wyoming Supreme Court. -
Wyo. governor names new AG to replace Phillips
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) -- Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has named Peter Michael his new attorney general. -
Wyo. SC justice to retire in January
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) -- Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Barton Voigt announced his retirement Monday. -
Wyoming justices back doctor in negligence case ruling
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) -- The Wyoming Supreme Court last month ruled in favor of a doctor who left the state after negligently treating a patient. -
Wyo. SC backs arbitrator in horseplay case against BP
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) - The Wyoming Supreme Court last week upheld a lower court's ruling denying a man's motion to have an arbitrator's decision in favor of oil giant BP vacated. -
Wyo. SC rules man's hernia a work-related injury
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) - The Wyoming Supreme Court has overturned the decision of a lower court that denied medical benefits to a man whose spinal cord simulator caused a hernia. -
State's high court says widow of Jehovah's Witness entitled to death benefits
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline)-The state must pay benefits to the widow of a Jehovah's Witness even though her late husband refused "reasonable and necessary" medical treatment, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled. -
Wyoming SC upholds $9.5 million award to coal miner
William Hill CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Legal Newsline) - The Wyoming Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a $9.46 million award to a coal miner who was paralyzed in a January 2002 accident at the Black Thunder Coal Mine. -
Disability claimant must prove injury work-related: SC
Wyoming Supreme Court CHEYENNE -- A former employee with a long history of back problems cannot receive disability benefits for a claimed work-related back injury, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled today.