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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Equality State Policy Center v. Wyoming Secretary of State

1:25-cv-00117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: May 9, 2025

Closed Date: July 22, 2025

This case challenged a Wyoming state law, HB 156, that imposed new documentary proof of citizenship requirements that allegedly made it harder for eligible citizens to vote. A similar law passed by Kansas in 2011 saw roughly 1 in 8 people excluded from voter registration, despite nearly all of them being citizens; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit struck down that law as unconstitutional.  Represented by Elias Law, plaintiff, a coalition of Wyoming policy organizations, filed this…

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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Johnson v. State of Wyoming III

2025-CV-0114940 | Wyoming state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 28, 2025

This case is a challenge to series of Wyoming state laws regulating pregnant people and abortion providers in Wyoming.  Procedural Background Plaintiffs originally filed suit in Natrona County District Court on February 28. On March 11, having not been granted a TRO hearing, plaintiffs dismissed that case and refiled in Teton County District Court. Ten days later, the court dismissed the second lawsuit, since patients had been denied care at a clinic in Natrona County. The case was refiled in N…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Johnson v. State of Wyoming II

18853 | Wyoming state trial court

Filed Date: March 21, 2023

On March 21, 2023, Chelsea’s Fund, Circle of Hope Healthcare Services, and four private residents of the State of Wyoming filed a complaint in the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District for Teton County against the Governor of Wyoming, the state’s Attorney General, as well as the local city and county police officials. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs challenged the state’s newly passed criminal abortion ban and medication abortion ban. This complaint was filed after a prio…
EDUCATION
Wyoming Education Association v. State of Wyoming

2022-CV-0200788 | Wyoming state trial court

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2022, the Wyoming Education Association filed this lawsuit against the state of Wyoming in the District Court of the First Judicial District in the County of Laramie, Wyoming. Several Wyoming school districts later joined as intervening Plaintiffs. The Plaintiffs alleged that the state of Wyoming's funding of education violated Wyoming's constitution because it did notmaintain a cost-based funding system and failed to properly adjust t…
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

Closed Date: May 13, 2024

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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Johnson v. State of Wyoming I

18732 | Wyoming state trial court

Filed Date: July 25, 2022

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…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Speight v. Wyoming Governor

2:22-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2022

Closed Date: March 24, 2022

This case arises out of a dispute over filling a statewide elected position vacancy for the remainder of the elected term. On January 25, 2022, Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. The plaintiffs sued the Wyoming Republican Party and the Governor under the Fourteenth Amendment.  Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs (registered Wyoming voters) sought an injunction and temporary restraining order preventing Governor Gordon from selecting a ne…
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 …
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

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,…