CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DIST. v. STATE

Nos. 94-136 thru 94-140.

907 P.2d 1238 (1995)

CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, State of Wyoming; et al., Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. STATE of Wyoming: Diana J. Ohman, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; et al., Appellees (Defendants), and Big Horn County School District No. One, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellees (Intervening Defendants). STATE of Wyoming: Diana Ohman, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Dave Ferrari, State Auditor; Nedolyn Testolin, Michael Glode, Karen Moulton, Lynn Dickey, Lynn Messenger, Elizabeth Field, Judy Campbell, Charlotte Levendosky, Jack Iversen, Wayne Mortensen, and John Andrikopoulos, Members of the Wyoming State Board of Education, Appellants (Defendants), v. CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellees (Plaintiffs), and Laramie County School District No. One, et al., and Wyoming Education Association, Appellees (Intervening Plaintiffs). LARAMIE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, State of Wyoming, Appellant (Intervening Plaintiff), v. Diana OHMAN, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellees (Defendants), and Big Horn County School District No. One, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellees (Intervening Defendants). WYOMING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Appellant (Intervening Plaintiff), v. Diana OHMAN, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellees (Defendants), and Big Horn County School District No. One, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellees (Intervening Defendants). BIG HORN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. ONE, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellants (Intervening Defendants), v. CAMPBELL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, State of Wyoming, et al., Appellees (Plaintiffs), and Laramie County School District No. One, et al., and Wyoming Education Association, Appellees (Intervening Plaintiffs).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

As Clarified on Denial of Rehearing December 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ford T. Bussart, Marvin L. Tyler of Bussart, West, Rossetti, Piaia & Tyler, Rock Springs, for Campbell County School District, State of Wyoming, et al.

Joseph B. Meyer, Attorney General, Rowena L. Heckert, Sr. Assistant Attorney General, Cheyenne, for State of Wyoming, Diana J. Ohman, et al.

Timothy J. Kirven of Kirven & Kirven, P.C., Buffalo, Gerald R. Mason of Mason & Graham, P.C., Pinedale, for Big Horn County School District No. One, et al.

Paul J. Hickey, Mark R. Stewart, Richard D. Bush of Hickey & Evans, Cheyenne, for Laramie County School District No. One.

Patrick E. Hacker, Cheyenne, for Wyoming Education Association.

Gerald L. Goulding, Afton, for Lincoln County School District No. Two as amicus curiae.

Dan Pauli of the Legislative Service Office, Cheyenne, for Wyoming Legislature and Management Council as amicus curiae.

Before GOLDEN, C.J., and THOMAS, MACY, TAYLOR and LEHMAN, JJ.


GOLDEN, Chief Justice.

The question before us is the constitutionality of Wyoming's public school finance system. Four Wyoming school districts (Campbell County School District No. One, Uinta County School District No. One, Sweetwater County School Districts Nos. One and Two) brought suit in January 1992, against the State of Wyoming, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education and others1 seeking declaratory...

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