43 ABA Journal Wyoming articles.
The Wyoming Supreme Court has publicly censured a Cheyenne lawyer who charged a client $30,000 in finance charges on an unpaid legal bill of $41,000.
The court adopted a report…
May 18, 2016 6:15 AM CDT
A federal appeals court has embraced a 1-to-1 ratio of compensatory-to-punitive damages in a Wyoming renter’s lawsuit over a brain injury due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
The April 1 decision…
Apr 5, 2016 1:50 PM CDT
“It’s a song,” according to coal-protesting plaintiffs suing Peabody Energy. “A song can’t hurt Peabody.”
More specifically, it’s a John Prine song, and Peabody Energy says it has no place…
Aug 6, 2015 8:32 AM CDT
A federal judge in Wyoming has temporarily stayed new federal rules governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands.
U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl of Casper stayed the rules to allow the…
Jun 24, 2015 1:57 PM CDT
A new Wyoming law that makes it a crime to collect “resource data” from open land is so broad that it could criminalize taking a picture of a geyser on…
May 11, 2015 2:14 PM CDT
Barriers to same-sex marriages were removed by federal courts in three more states Friday.
Federal district judges struck bans in Arizona and Wyoming and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to…
Oct 17, 2014 5:25 PM CDT
The Wyoming State Bar is reconsidering its policy of running unedited biographies for meeting speakers amid a controversy spurred by the upcoming appearance of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The…
Sep 5, 2014 8:00 AM CDT
A 75-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after she was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1970s shooting death of her third husband.
Prosecutors in Laramie…
Aug 26, 2014 5:37 PM CDT
A legislative committee in Wyoming is drafting a bill to allow firing-squad executions, though the state has only one death-row inmate.
Committee staffers are beginning work on the bill after…
May 22, 2014 11:56 AM CDT
University of Wyoming law dean Stephen Easton has resigned and is airing the reasons why in an email sent to students, faculty, staff and alumni.
The email (PDF),…
Nov 1, 2013 3:05 PM CDT
Law students have just one chance to learn the basics, so they should avoid “frill courses,” Justice Antonin Scalia said on Thursday.
Scalia spoke at the University of Wyoming after…
Oct 26, 2012 2:20 PM CDT
A five-day search for a missing Wyoming lawyer ended on Saturday when he was found dead in his SUV near a dry lake.
Cody lawyer Charles George Kepler, a former…
Jul 10, 2012 2:22 PM CDT
After more than 50 years in business, a Casper, Wyo., law firm specializing in oil and gas and corporate matters can’t compete with the larger regional firms that are luring…
Dec 16, 2011 9:25 PM CST
A disbarred New York lawyer who went on the lam after he was accused of stealing from clients was arrested earlier this month while hitchhiking in Wyoming.
Edward Christensen, 61,…
Oct 24, 2011 11:22 AM CDT
A 1,700 square-foot home in Cheyenne, Wyo., has an outsize impact.
The home is the headquarters for Wyoming Corporate Services, an enterprising business that helps set up shell companies that…
Jun 28, 2011 4:09 PM CDT
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