UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING v. GRESSLEY

Nos. 96-10, 96-9.

978 P.2d 1146 (1999)

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING Through Its Trustees including: Elizabeth A. Kail, W. Perry Dray, Dan Kinnaman, Forrest Kepler, Harry Lee Harris, Peter M. Jorgensen, Geraldine Kirk, Jerry Saunders, M.D., Dave Bonner, Deborah Healy Hammons, David W. "Bud" Updike, and F. Richard Brown, in their official capacities, Appellants (Defendants), v. Gene M. GRESSLEY, Appellee (Plaintiff). Gene M. Gressley, Appellant (Plaintiff), v. Helen Deutsch; and University Of Wyoming Through Its Trustees Including: Elizabeth A. Kail, W. Perry Dray, Dan Kinnaman, Forrest Kepler, Harry Lee Harris, Peter M. Jorgensen, Geraldine Kirk, Jerry Saunders, M.D., Dave Bonner, Deborah Healy Hammons, David W. "Bud" Updike, and F. Richard Brown, in their official capacities, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

April 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ford T. Bussart of Bussart, West, Rossetti, Piaia & Tyler, P.C., Rock Springs, Wyoming, Representing University of Wyoming, et al.

Walter Urbigkit of Frontier Law Center, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Representing Gene M. Gressley.

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


THOMAS, Justice.

In this case, we address questions of issue and claim preclusion ascribable to the efforts of Gene M. Gressley (Gressley) to challenge his discharge as Assistant to the President for the American Heritage Center and as a professor by the University of Wyoming (University). Gressley challenged his discharge by pursuing formal administrative proceedings provided by University regulations and by a civil action in the United States District Court for...

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