Knori v. State ex rel. Department of Health, Office of Medicaid

DONNELL, District Judge.

[¶ 1] This ease concerns the availability of the defense of equitable estoppel against a governmental agency seeking to collect a judgment on a creditor’s claim. The District Court granted the agency’s motion for summary judgment. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm.

ISSUE

[¶ 2] Appellant states the issue as follows:

[I]s equitable estoppel against a governmental agency allowed and an appropriate remedy under Wyoming law when an employee of the Wyoming Department of Family Services, employed as a Medicaid Eligibility Technician, negligently informs and advises an…