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Wyoming ranchers and lawmakers allege the WWP has trespassed on private land to collect water quality data to support an agenda of curtailing public lands grazing. [ 5 ] Starting from June 2014, 15 Wyoming ranchers sued Jonathan Ratner and the WWP for allegedly trespassing on private land to access Bureau of Land Management parcels to collect ...
Wyoming's legislature passed a statute in 2019 creating the Wyoming Chancery Court, which was signed into law the same year. [1] [2] [3] Unlike a traditional chancery court, which is a court of equity, Wyoming's new chancery court was given jurisdiction over purely monetary disputes (with more than $50,000 at issue) as well as actions in equity, with a limited subject matter jurisdiction ...
The Wyoming Senate is the upper house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 31 Senators in the Senate, representing an equal number of constituencies across Wyoming, each with a population of at least 17,000. The Senate meets at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne. Members of the Senate serve four-year terms without term limits.
During its territorial era, the Wyoming Legislature played a crucial role in the Suffragette Movement in the United States.In 1869, only four years following the American Civil War, and another 35 years before women's suffrage became a highly visible political issue in both the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere, the Wyoming Legislature granted all women above the age of 21 the right to vote.
The 2024 Wyoming House of Representatives election saw victories in primaries for hard-right Republican members of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, increasing their seat share from twenty-eight to thirty-four, a simple majority in the sixty-two seat chamber, in what was the first takeover of any legislature by a state Freedom Caucus.
Because Wyoming has no intermediate appellate court, appeals from the district courts go directly to the Supreme Court. In 2019, the Chancery Court of the State of Wyoming ( Wyoming Chancery Court ) was created by legislation, with a limited defined subject matter jurisdiction over business, commercial, and trust litigation. [ 3 ]
Courts of Wyoming include: State courts of Wyoming. Wyoming Supreme Court [1] Wyoming District Courts (9 districts) [2] Wyoming Chancery Court. Wyoming Circuit Courts [3]
The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission regulates many aspects of oil, coal, and gas development in this resource-rich state. [105] There is an annual state Gas Fair. [106] The University of Wyoming is well known for its research on energy development. [104] The university sponsored a symposium on coal gasification in 2007. [107] [108]