MATTER OF CONTEMPT ORDER (ANDERSON)

No. 88-100.

765 P.2d 933 (1988)

In the Matter of the CONTEMPT ORDER ISSUED By the Honorable Robert B. Ranck, Judge, Ninth Judicial District, State of Wyoming, AGAINST Robert O. ANDERSON, Attorney, in Civil Action No. 24864.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

December 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F.M. Andrews, Jr., Andrews & Anderson, P.C., Riverton, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., Peter J. Mulvaney, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Clinton D. Beaver, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ.


THOMAS, Justice.

The primary question in this case, which involves the invocation of the contempt powers of a district court in a proceeding instituted by an administrative agency to enforce discovery in a contested case, is whether the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. As an incident of the enforcement proceeding, the district court found an attorney for a party guilty of indirect criminal contempt. The appeal raises other claims of error to the effect that...

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