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Johnson v. State of Wyoming

18732 | Wyoming state trial court

Filed Date: July 25, 2022

(This summary is temporary while we research the case). On July 25, 2022, a women's health clinic and other abortion activists filed this lawsuit to challenge Wyoming's trigger abortion ban, alleging that the ban violated rights guaranteed by the state’s constitution.
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

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 the State of Wyoming. The four couples live in Wyoming, two seek to get married in the state and the others seek to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions, legally recognized in the state. Wyoming Equality is a non-profit organization that works on behalf of LGBT causes in the state. The plaintiffs asked the …
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…
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…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Weston v. Wyoming State Training School

2:90-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 1990

Closed Date: Dec. 5, 1994

In 1990, prior to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a group of residents of the Wyoming State Training School, an institution that housed individuals with intellectual disabilities, brought this lawsuit. Represented by the Wyoming Protection and Advocacy System, the plaintiffs sought to remedy unconstitutional conditions and statutory violations at the institution and aimed to force Wyoming to create community living options for many of its residents.Though it predated the ADA…
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 s…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Miller v. Grubbe

2:09-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2009

Closed Date: 2009

On February 24, 2009, the plaintiff, a prisoner at the Wyoming State Penitentiary (WSP) filed a class action lawsuit in the United States Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the WSP, alleging violations of his First and Fourteenth Amendment Rights. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged that he was singled out for filing a complaint against a corrections officer, and denied due process by the WSP warden, who did not allow him to present evidence in his favor during hi…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pevar v. Lampert

2:07-cv-00193 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2007

Closed Date: 2007

On August 28, 2007, Stephen Pevar, an ACLU attorney, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court District of Wyoming, challenging the interrogation practices at the Wyoming State Penitentiary. Pevar alleged that state prison investigators interrogated inmates about the substance of confidential attorney-client communications. Specifically, Pevar, who presented inmates in a separate class action lawsuit Skinner v. Lambert [PC-WY-3], alleged that prison …