Wyoming Fiduciary Duty Law
<h2> <center> State of Wyoming v. Rihanna Kelver </h2> </center>
Laramie, Wyoming, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with brandishing or pointing a firearm. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Rihanna Kelver, who is transgender, age 28, drew her gun after she had been pushed down in the street during a brief confrontation with three men.... More...
$ (08-05-2026 - WY)<h1> United States of America v. Viktor Pyshniuk </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Cheyenne, Wyoming criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with thermal trespass and a closure violation in Yellowstone National Park </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Washington man receives jail sentence for thermal trespass and a closure violation in Yellowstone National Park </h2></center></b></b... More...
$0 (06-13-2024 - WY)Michael Peeples v. Daniel Shoemaker, et al.
Cheyenne, Wyoming personal injury lawyer <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/atty.asp?f=Eric&l=Hinckley&i=135859&z=84405" target="_new">Eric Hinckley</a> represented the Plaintiff who sued on auto negligence theories.<br> <br> This case was filed in the Unita County District Court, 2022-CV-0000311, and was removed to federal court.<br> <br> The following five elements may typically be required... More...
$1 (04-17-2024 - WY)Andriy Kovalchuk v. Juan CervantesTexas International Enterprise, Inc.
Cheyenne, Wyoming personal injury truck wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on auto negligence theories claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in damages and/or injuries.<br> <br> Wyoming Auto Negligence Law: A Summary<br> <br> Wyoming's auto negligence law follows a modified comparative negligence system, meaning your ability to recover damages in an accident depen... More...
$1 (10-10-2023 - WY)Walter Tupper and Charmaine Tupper v. United States of America
Casper, Wyoming personal injury car wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on Federal Tort Claims Act auto negligence theory claiming to have suffered damages and/or injuries as a direct result of the failure to exercise due care by a federal government employee causing a motor vehicle accident.<br> <br> Wyoming Auto Negligence Law: A Summary<br> <br> Wyoming's auto negligen... More...
$1 (06-29-2023 - wy)Andrew J. Johnson v. City of Cheyenne, et al.
Cheyenne, Wyoming personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights Violation theories.<br> <br> This matter comes before the Court on Defendant Spencer's Motion to Dismiss<br> (ECF No. 17), Defendant Estate of George W. Stanford's Motion to Dismiss (ECF No.<br> 45), and Defendant City of Cheyenne's Renewed Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a<br> Claim ... More...
$0 (08-20-2020 - WY)Kelly Sue Elliott v. Horseshoe Bison, Inc.
Casper, Wyoming personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident. <br> <br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/wyoming/news/casper/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Casper</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </... More...
$1 (11-22-2022 - WY)Jessica Ferguson v. Underriner Motors Inc
Cheyenne, Wyoming personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued defendant on auto negligence and respondeat superior theories claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in damages as a direct result of an accident caused by one of Defendant's employees.<br> <br> 28 U.S.C. §1332. Diversity of citizenship; amount in controversy; costs<br> <br> (a) The district courts shall have original... More...
$1 (08-05-2021 - WY)United States of America v. Jason August Obermueller
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/wy/images/cheyen~1.jpg"><br> </center><br> Cheyenne, WY - The United States of America charged Jason August Obermueller with being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922, which provides:<br> <br> (a) It shall be unlawful—<br> <br> (1) for any person—<br> <br> (A) except a licensed importer, license... More...
$0 (09-10-2019 - WY)Steven Jacob Mitchell V. The State of Wyoming
<center><br> <img width="300" src=" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Wyoming_Supreme_Court_Building%2C_Cheyenne%2C_Southwest_view_20110823_1.jpg "><br> <h2> Wyoming Supreme Court </h2><br> </center><br> <br> Mr. Mitchell’s criminal proceeding arose from his actions during a lengthy custody battle over his daughter, EP. The custody proceedings involved several jurisdictions... More...
$0 (10-02-2018 - WY)Diane Smith v. Cheyenne Retirement Investors,L.P., d/b/a Point Frontier Retirement Community
<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/images/cheyennecourthouse.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Plaintiff Diane Smith, a former employee of the Pointe Frontier assisted living<br> facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming, brings this suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights<br> Act of 1964 alleging that she was unlawfully terminated by Pointe Frontier in 2014 in<br> 2<br> retaliation fo... More...
$0 (10-01-2018 - WY)Jacob Alan Buszkiewic v. The State of Wyoming <table> <td>
Mr. Buszkiewic and Sarah Oakland were involved in an on-again-off-again romantic relationship. In April 2016, Ms. Oakland, who resided in Sheridan, Wyoming, spent a couple of weeks with Mr. Buszkiewic at his house in Laramie, Wyoming. On April 29, 2016, the couple visited several bars, with their final stop of the night being Bud’s Bar in West Laramie. They stayed at the bar after it closed a... More...
$0 (08-30-2018 - WY)STEPHEN RICHARD HASKELL v. THE STATE OF WYOMING <table> <td>
Stephen Haskell won the August 2014 primary election for Sublette County Sheriff on a platform that included purchasing new uniforms for the sheriff’s office. He became the sheriff-elect after the general election in early November and began preparing to take office. His preparations included a meeting in late November with two of the sitting county commissioners. The three men discussed the ... More...
$0 (08-05-2018 - WY)Katherine K. Morgan v. Baker Hughes Incorporated
Katherine Morgan, as wrongful death representative of her deceased husband<br> David Morgan, appeals the district court’s grant of judgment as matter of law<br> (“JMOL”) in favor of Baker Hughes Incorporated, issued after trial but before the<br> case was submitted to the jury. Because material disputes in the evidence remain for<br> resolution by the jury, we conclude that JMOL was inapprop... More...
$0 (04-09-2018 - WY)Karl Allred v. Eli D. Bebout, et al.
[¶1] Two Wyoming citizens sought to challenge legislation that authorized two<br> construction projects while maintaining a degree of legislative control which the citizens<br> contend violate the Wyoming Constitution. They also alleged a pattern of letting state<br> contracts without competitive bidding or required safeguards, contrary to the Wyoming<br> Constitution and laws. They sought to ame... More...
$0 (01-30-2018 - WY)S.H. v. Campbell County School District, et al.
[¶1] SH received special education services at the Campbell County School District (School District) in accordance with an Individual Education Plan (IEP), pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. She was injured when she slipped and fell on the school playground, and she filed a complaint against the School District to recover damages for her injuries. SH claimed that... More...
$0 (02-13-2018 - WY)STATE OF MONTANA v. DENNIS LEO SCHOWENGERDT <table> <td>
The initial facts of the case are undisputed: On December 8, 2012, Schowengerdt <br> killed his wife, Tina Schowengerdt, by repeatedly stabbing her in their home near Deer <br> Lodge. The following morning, Schowengerdt drove to the police station in Deer Lodge <br> and, in a recorded statement, told officers that last night he, “killed that son of a bitch [he] <br> was living with. So arrest ... More...
$0 (01-19-2018 - WY)STEVEN DEAN MCLAREN v. THE STATE OF WYOMING <table> <td>
Mr. McLaren owned 57 cats. He and his girlfriend, Jennifer Evans, referred to the cats as their “kids” or “the kid.” On March 10, 2014, one of Mr. McLaren’s exotic Savannah kittens, Cameo, was sick, so he and Ms. Evans took it to a veterinary clinic for treatment. Mr. McLaren testified that he had injected “somewhere between a quarter and a third of a gram” of methamphetamine righ... More...
$0 (12-30-2017 - WY)Terry Laverne Schmuck v. The State of Wyoming <table> <td>
Mr. Schmuck struck his wife, Cindy Schmuck, in the head with a hatchet. The blow fractured her skull and caused an underlying hemorrhage into the brain. The State charged Mr. Schmuck with one count of attempted murder in the first degree. The trial court also instructed the jury on the lesser included offenses of attempted murder in the second degree and attempted voluntary manslaughter. <br> ... More...
$0 (12-04-2017 - WY)CINDY WILLIAMS and WILLIAM WILLIAMS v. PLAINS TIRE & BATTERY CO., INC. <table> <td>
On September 27, 2010, Mrs. Williams and her brother, Wayne Campbell, took the Williams’ trailer to a store operated by Plains in Evanston, Wyoming for a repair. They entered the building through a side door that led into the repair shop and found their way to the front office. After arranging for the repair, they left the same way they had come. <br> [¶4] They returned to the store that aft... More...
$0 (11-29-2017 - WY)ADAM JAMES BROUSSARD v. THE STATE OF WYOMING <table> <td>
On May 23, 2015, Mr. Broussard and Keevin Ware went to Kayla Walker’s apartment. According to Ms. Walker, Mr. Broussard was upset with her because she did not give him a ride the previous evening. Angered by their discussion, Mr.Broussard pulled out a gun, put it to Ms. Walker’s head, and demanded that she give him money. Ms. Walker told him that her money was in her car. Mr. Broussard prec... More...
$0 (06-20-2017 - WY)Chad Dockter v. The State of Wyoming <table> <td>
Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the State and resolving any evidentiary conflicts in its favor, see Barrowes v. State, 2017 WY 23, ¶ 3, 390 P.3d 1126, 1126 (Wyo. 2017), the pertinent facts established at trial are as follows. Appellant and the victim Amanda Yearsley dated for six months before Ms. Yearsley ended the relationship in May 2015. Ms. Yearsly then met with Appellant... More...
$0 (06-07-2017 - WY)The Tavern, L.L.C. and Sall, L.L.C. v. The Town of Alpine, Wyoming
[¶1] Appellants The Tavern, LLC and SALL, LLC sued the town of Alpine, asserting<br> several claims stemming from Alpine’s financing and construction of a new sewage<br> treatment facility. Appellants challenged the legality of the indebtedness Alpine incurred<br> for the project, alleging that the loans exceeded the constitutional and statutory debt<br> limitations imposed upon municipalities.... More...
$0 (05-16-2017 - WY)Anthony Haire v. The State of Wyoming <table> <td>
Appellant lived with his wife and three small children in a mobile home in Worland, Wyoming. Their home was situated on a piece of property owned by Jamye SoRelle.1 Mr. SoRelle also lived in a mobile home on the property.<br> On the evening of April 13, 2015, Appellant was grilling hamburgers in front of his mobile home with his family and a friend, Judy Cable. Mr. SoRelle came to the cookout f... More...
$0 (05-15-2017 - WY)Roger Garling v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Roger Garling, Sheryl Garling, and their business, R and D Enterprises, Inc., <br> (collectively, “the Garlings”) sued the United States for damages arising from an <br> FILED United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit <br> <br> March 7, 2017 <br> <br> Elisabeth A. Shumaker Clerk of Court <br> <br> <br> - 2 - <br> <br> Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) raid and investigation of... More...
$0 (03-10-2017 - WY)<b>CASSANDRA L. McEUEN v. THE STATE OF WYOMING</b>
On August 21, 2015, on-duty Officer Josh Buhmann noticed an ATV driving on an Evanston street without a license plate. Officer Buhmann activated his overhead lights and activated his air horn, but the driver of the ATV, Cassandra McEuen, did not stop and drove the ATV into an alleyway and eventually an apartment complex parking lot. Ms. McEuen began walking toward the apartment complex, but tur... More...
$0 (02-18-2017 - WY)Matthew Carabajal a/k/a Mathew K. Carabajal Jacoby v. City of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Josh Thornton and Michael Sutton
Plaintiffs-Appellants Mathew Carabajal and his son, V.M.C., through<br> Mathew and V.M.C.’s mother, Arianna Martinez, appeal from the district court’s<br> judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Officers Joshua Thornton and Michael<br> Sutton, and Defendant-Appellee City of Cheyenne (“the City”). On appeal,<br> Plaintiffs challenge the district court’s grant of a motion to dismiss Plai... More...
$0 (02-10-2017 - WY)Lindy Grace Cunningham and Michael Chad Cunningham v. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Corporation
Lindy and Chad Cunningham sued Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Corporation<br> (JHMR)1 for injuries Mrs. Cunningham sustained when she collided with a trail sign<br> while skiing. The district court granted summary judgment for JHMR, concluding the<br> Cunninghams’ claims were barred by the terms of a release Mrs. Cunningham signed<br> * This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except unde... More...
$0 (12-23-2016 - WY)<b>JEREMIAH ANTHONY MARSHALL, a/k/a JEREMIAH ANTHONY MAHONEY v. THE STATE OF WYOMING, </ center></b>
In November 2014, Mr. Marshall was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for driving with its high-beam headlights on. During the stop, the officer learned from the driver of the vehicle that Mr. Marshall had given the officer a false name. The officer conducted a pat-down search of Mr. Marshall and detected an object in his left pant leg pocket. When the officer inquired about the object, ... More...
$0 (12-18-2016 - WY)<b>Bret Vance v. City of Laramie</b> <b><h3>Case No. - 2016 WY 106 </B></h3>
On December 5, 2012, Mr. Vance reported for work as a shift commander for the City’s fire department and was notified that he had been randomly selected for alcohol detection testing. Two breathalyzer tests performed minutes apart detected a low level of alcohol in his blood stream. Mr. Vance had previously been disciplined for testing positive for cocaine in 2010. Under the City’s policie... More...
$0 (11-11-2016 - WY)<b>Skuyler Salinas v. The State of Wyoming</b></h2.
Appellant and Ashley Martinez’s relationship ended a year after their daughter, L.S., was born. After some time had passed, an incident occurred in Fort Collins, Colorado. While Ms. Martinez, her date, and L.S. were stopped at a traffic light, Appellant, who apparently had been following them, came over and began punching her car and yelling at them. Ms. Martinez was eventually able to drive ... More...
$0 (10-10-2016 - WY)<b><h3>JASON THORNOCK v. PACIFICORP, an Oregon Company</b></h3>
In the fall of 2009, Mr. Thornock requested that PacifiCorp provide electric service to an irrigation pivot on his property. On March 23, 2010, Mr. Thornock signed a General Service Contract (first contract) authorizing PacifiCorp to provide electric service to the pivot. The contract stated that the agreement is “between PacifiCorp, doing business as Rocky Mountain Power (“Company”), and... More...
$0 (09-21-2016 - WY)United States of America v. Richard Anthony Root
Richard Anthony Root, 52, of Granger, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on July 22, 2016, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Root was arrested in Granger, Wyoming. He received 38 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Sweetwater... More...
$0 (07-28-2016 - WY)Douglas Craig Lemley v. The State of Wyoming
On December 17, 2014, a housekeeper employed by the Holiday Inn of Cheyenne1 called the front desk to report that a man was harassing the hotel staff on the fifth floor. The housekeeper believed he was in Room 527. Front desk employees reviewed their records and found that Room 527 was registered to a woman who appeared to have already checked out. The hotel’s branch office manager called Room ... More...
$0 (07-28-2016 - WY)State of Wyoming, et al. v. United States Department of the Interior, et al.
This matter comes before the Court on the Petitions for Review of Final Agency Action filed separately in each of these consolidated actions, challenging the Bureau of Land Management's issuance of regulations applying to hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands. The Court, having considered the briefs and materials submitted in support of the petitions and the oppositions thereto, includi... More...
$0 (06-23-2016 - WY)Ernest Ray Watts v. The State of Wyoming
At the time of the incident, Mr. Watts was living with his girlfriend, Diana Lynch, in a rental house outside of Cody, Wyoming. On January 9, 2014, Ms. Lynch was at home when Mr. Watts returned from work. The two argued when Ms. Lynch told Mr. Watts that she did not want him watching television in the same room in which she had been reading. Ms. Lynch testified that after a brief “hand skirmi... More...
$0 (03-31-2016 - WY)Pennaco Energy, Inc. v. Brett L. Sorenson, Trustee of the Brett L. Sorenson Trust Dated November 2, 2011
Sorenson owns a ranch along the Powder River near the town of Arvada, Wyoming. The ranch land is a split estate for mineral development purposes; that is, the surface estate is owned by Sorenson and the mineral estate is owned by several parties. Specifically, the minerals are owned in part by seven private parties, the State of Wyoming and Sorenson. The third party mineral owners, including t... More...
$0 (03-20-2016 - WY)Marty Wayne Rhodes v. The State of Wyoming
Appellant and the victim’s mother, Tanya Van Patten, met in Arizona in 2006, when the victim was eight years old. Appellant and Ms. Van Patten subsequently married and had three children together between 2006 and 2011. During the majority of this time, the victim lived with Ms. Van Patten’s parents in Jackson, Wyoming. In December 2011, the victim moved into Appellant’s and Ms. Van Patten’... More...
$0 (02-21-2016 - WY)Shey Elan Bruce v. The State of Wyoming
Charles Darrell Laster and Lavena Laster were originally married in 1996, divorced in 2004, remarried in 2007, and separated again, though not divorced, in 2010. In 2010, the Lasters were living in Shoshoni, Wyoming, and when they separated, Mrs. Laster moved to Mesa, Arizona. Mrs. Laster lived in Arizona until March 2013, when Mr. Laster bought her a bus ticket so she could return to Shoshoni. ... More...
$0 (02-16-2016 - WY)Charley Collins v. COP Wyoming, LLC
Charley and his son, Brett, were both employed by Appellee COP Wyoming, LLC. Appellee Roger Ross was also employed by COP Wyoming, as the job superintendent and supervisor in charge of safety at the same job site. On August 20, 2012, Mr. Ross was operating a large track hoe excavator to excavate insidea trench box at the job site. Mr. Ross instructed Brett to enter the trench box and work there w... More...
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