Wyoming Defamation Law

Roger Garling v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

Roger Garling, Sheryl Garling, and their business, R and D Enterprises, Inc., (collectively, “the Garlings”) sued the United States for damages arising from an FILED United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit March 7, 2017 Elisabeth A. Shumaker Clerk of Court - 2 - Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) raid and investigation of... More...

$0 (03-10-2017 - WY)

Sky Harbor Air Service, Inc. v. Cheyenne Regional Airport Board, a Wyoming Corporation

In 2008, Sky Harbor initiated litigation against the Airport in the United States District Court for Wyoming, based on the Paint Shop lease. Sky Harbor Air Serv., Inc. v. Reams, 491 Fed. Appx. 875, 879 (10th Cir. 2012). Sky Harbor asserted claims for extortion, fraud, conspiracy, defamation, violation of Constitutional rights, breach of contract, and multiple other causes of action. Id. at 880. Th... More...

$0 (02-09-2016 - WY)

Kathy S. Crofts State of Wyoming, ex rel., Department of Game and Fish

Kathy Crofts was a long-term Game & Fish employee. At all relevant times, Ms. Crofts was a wildlife investigator based in Cody, and was entitled to the protections provided to full-time, permanent employees by the Stateof Wyoming’s Personnel Rules. [¶4] Ms. Crofts was issued a one-day suspension without pay on October 13, 2011. That suspension was based upon Ms. Crofts’ insubordinate beh... More...

$0 (01-08-2016 - WY)

Roger Brecheen, M.D. v. Maura Lofaro, M.D.

Plaintiffs Roger Brecheen, M.D., his wife, Kathy Watkins-Brecheen, and Jackson Hole Ob-Gyn, P.C., a professional corporation formed by Brecheen, filed this action asserting a host of federal and state claims arising out of Brecheen's eviction from an office building in Jackson, Wyoming. Among those were two claims asserted under 42 U.S.C. Â§ 1983, one for deprivation of Brecheen'... More...

$0 (05-21-2014 - WY)

Sky Harbor Air Service, Inc. v. Shelly Reams

In 2008, Sky Harbor Air Service, Inc., ("Sky Harborâ€) and its owner, H. Paul Martin, asserted more than a dozen claims against various defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. On summary judgment, the district court dismissed all of their claims. Sky Harbor and Mr. Martin also were held liable on a breach-ofcontract counterclaim and ordered to pay attorney fees. ... More...

$0 (07-20-2012 - WY)

Operation Save America v. The City of Jackson

[¶1] The Town of Jackson applied to the district court for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) against Operation Save America (OSA), an anti-abortion protest group. The Town sought to restrict OSA's demonstration activities in and around the Jackson Town Square during the Boy Scouts' 2011 annual Elk Fest. The district court granted the ex parte TRO, which enjoined OSA "from assembling o... More...

$0 (04-10-2012 - WY)

Glenda R. Reynolds v. West Park Hospital District

[¶1] Glenda Reynolds (Reynolds) appeals the West Park Hospital District's Board of Trustees' (Hospital District) decision to terminate her employment. Finding no error in the Hospital District's decision, we will affirm. ISSUES [¶2] Reynolds raises three issues on appeal. We have rephrased those issues as follows for clarity's sake: 1. Was the Hospital District's decision to... More...

$0 (05-27-2010 - WY)

Letitia C. Abromats, Philip E. Abromats v. Don Wood and Brenda Wood

[¶1] Philip and Letitia Abromats request relief from summary judgment granted to Don and Brenda Wood, claiming that the district court erred when it found that one allegedly defamatory statement contained in a victim impact statement was not libel per se and that the other allegedly defamatory statement was protected by qualified immunity as a statement concerning a common interest. The Woods, in... More...

$0 (08-26-2009 - WY)

James Stafford, d/b/a Evergreen Tree Care v. JHL, Inc., d/b/a Jackson Hole Landscaping

In January 2005, the parties entered into a contract whereby Evergreen agreed to sell its tree grooming business to JHL. The contract included the following attorney fee provision: Should either party be required to obtain an attorney to enforce any part of this agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover reasonable costs and fees, including, but not limited to, attorney fe... More...

$0 (10-22-2008 - WY)

Wayne Garrison v. CC Builders, Inc. and Clint Cook

[1] CC Builders, Inc. (CC Builders) built Wayne and Pamela Garrison (the Garrisons) a house in Teton County, Wyoming, on a ―cost plus‖ basis. This litigation resulted from the parties' subsequent disagreement as to the reasonable cost of construction. Both parties have appealed from the district court's award of damages and costs to the Garrisons. We affirm in part and reverse in p... More...

$131962 (04-02-2008 - WY)

<a href="http://courts.state.wy.us/2002opn/2002WY152.pdf" target="_new">Gary Hoblyn and Michelle Hoblyn v. Margurette Johnson, et al.</a>

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 ... More...

$0 (10-10-2002 - WY)

<a href="http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2000/02/98-8046.htm" target="_new">David G. Renaud v. Wyoming Department of Family Services, et al.</a>

Plaintiff David G. Renaud brought this action in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming for wrongful termination of his employment as superintendent of the Wyoming Boys' School. He asserted seven claims for relief. His first claim was that Defendant Wyoming Department of Family Services violated the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], <a href="http://www.access.gpo.gov/usc... More...

$0 (02-08-2000 - WY)

<a href="http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2001/07/00-8005.htm" target="_new">David M. Veile v. Gordon D. Martinson, et al.</a>

Plaintiffs David M. Veile and Veile Mortuary, Inc. appeal the district court's conclusion they did not possess a protected property interest in a rotation policy established by defendant Gordon D. Martinson, the Coroner of Washakie County, Wyoming, and the court's decision to strike an expert witness designation on the property interest issue. Further, they challenge the district court's refusal t... More...

$0 (07-30-2001 - WY)

<a href="http://courts.state.wy.us/2001opn/2001WY36.pdf" target="_new">Sandra Eathorne v. Board of Trustees of the Memorial Hospital of Carbon County, et al.</a>

Wrongful termination - Plaintiff claimed that she was wrongfully terminated from her employment as a charge nurse in the intensive care unit at the Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in July, 1998. Her complaint alleged claims for defamation, intentional interference with contract, intentional interference with prospective advantage, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of the cov... More...

$0 (04-11-2001 - WY)