Gary Hoblyn and Michelle Hoblyn v. Margurette Johnson, et al.

The teenage daughter of Appellants Gary and Michelle Hoblyn (the parents) accused
her father of abuse. While the charges were being investigated, the parents took the daughter
to stay temporarily with her grandparents in Nebraska but would not permit her to take her
horse. The daughter undertook efforts, with the assistance of a state brand inspector, to
obtain possession of her horse. Though the father was later found not guilty of abuse, the
daughter did not return home. The parents sued the grandparents, the neighbors, the brand
inspector, the Laramie County sheriff's department, and others for various conspiracy and
individual claims including tortious interference with the parent-child relationship,
deprivation of constitutional rights under color of state law, intentional infliction of
emotional distress, larceny, trespass, harassment, and defamation. The district court
dismissed the tortuous interference claim against the grandparents for lack of jurisdiction,
and it dismissed the remainder of the claims by summary judgment.

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