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DISABILITY RIGHTS
P&A System v. Freudenthal

2:05-cv-00014 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2005

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2006

This is a case about a Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agency’s facilities and records access authority. On January 10, 2005, Protection and Advocacy System, Inc., Wyoming’s P&A, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. The Wyoming P&A filed suit against David Freudenthal in his official capacity as Wyoming’s Governor. Represented by Gagley, Karpan, Rose & White, Wyoming P&A alleged that defendants violated the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Mental …
REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Johnson v. State of Wyoming

18732 | Wyoming state trial court

Filed Date: July 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

On July 25, 2022, Circle of Hope Health Care Services, Chelsea’s Fund, and other abortion activists and providers filed this lawsuit in a Wyoming state trial court for Teton County to challenge Wyoming's trigger abortion ban, H.B. 92 codified in Wyoming Statute Section 36-6-102. The trigger ban prohibited nearly all abortions and subjected any healthcare provider who assisted in an abortion to felony criminal prosecution. The lawsuit challenged the ban under the state Constitution's fundamental…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections

1:03-cv-01006 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2003

Closed Date: Jan. 24, 2007

This is a case about a woman with intersex traits challenging her confinement in isolation while incarcerated. Even though the plaintiff had lived her entire life as a woman, prison staff determined she had genitalia outside of the typical male/female binary when they physically examined her upon her arrival at the Wyoming Women’s Center. Prison officials assigned the plaintiff to the maximum security ward to allegedly ensure the safety of both her and her fellow inmates. Previously, the ward h…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Guzzo v. Mead

2:14-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a 2014-2015 lawsuit about the right of same-sex couples in Wyoming to marry in Wyoming and have their out-of-state same-sex marriages recognized in Wyoming. On October 7, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C § 1983 against Wyoming. The four couples lived in Wyoming: two sought to get married in Wyoming and the others sought to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions,…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Carpenter v. Vilsack

2:21-cv-00103 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) classification of “socially disadvantaged groups.” Section 1005 of the ARP allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farms Services Agency (FSA) to forgive previously given loans to farmers of “socially disadvantaged groups.” That category is defined elsewhere to mean people who have been "subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Blanchard v. Wyoming Department of Corrections

1:17-cv-00124 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: July 18, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 3, 2020

On July 18, 2017, a woman who had been recommended to Wyoming’s rehabilitative boot camp program filed this putative class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. The case was assigned to Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. The plaintiff sued the Wyoming Department of Corrections (“WDOC”) and the Wyoming Women’s Center under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Under Wyoming’s Youthful Offender Act, all persons under twenty-five years old who were serving a prison sentence for any offense ot…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bustos v. Herschler

2:76-cv-00143 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 1976

Closed Date: 1982

Prisoners at the Wyoming State Penitentiary filed this class action lawsuit against the Wyoming Department of Corrections (WDOC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. Represented by the ACLU, the plaintiffs alleged that WDOC had violated their due process rights by imprisoning them in poor conditions. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that WDOC’s facilities were overcrowded, unsanitary, and unsafe; that WDOC provided inadequate medical care; and that WDOC staff behaved unco…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Miller v. Murphy

2:08-cv-00090 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: April 3, 2008

On April 3, 2008, two Muslim prisoners incarcerated in the Wyoming State Penitentary (WSP) sued officials of the Wyoming Department of Corrections in the United State District court of Wyoming. Plaintiffs claimed violations of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc et seq. (RLUIPA). Specifically, plaintiffs claimed that a prison policy requiring prisoners to consume their meals within twenty (20) minutes sub…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Diocese of Cheyenne v. Sebelius

2:14-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2014

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2017

On Jan. 30, 2014, several Wyoming-based Catholic organizations, filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act against the federal department of Health and Human Services. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate (including the accommodation offered by the government to some of the plaintiff-organizatio…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Jensen v. Solvay America, Inc.

2:06-cv-00273 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 2006

On November 15, 2006, current and former employees of Solvay Chemicals, Inc. filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and similarly-situated others in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. The plaintiffs sued Solvay America, Inc., Solvay Chemicals, Inc., and Solvay America Companies Pension Plan under the Employee Retirement Security Act (ERISA) and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought declaratory relief, monetar…