Legal Opinion · Dissent

State ex rel. Feeney v. District Court of the Seventh Judicial District

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided April 23, 1980No. Nos. 5232, 5241 and 5245Published

1DissentRaper, Chief Justice

with whom ROONEY, Justice, joins.

I would have granted a reconsideration of the majority’s opinion.

My conviction persists that this court has given an overly narrow and ultimately incorrect interpretation to the mandamus statute. I remain attached to the views pressed in my original dissent. No amount of italicizing or exclamation points or charges of failure to understand can mask the fact that the majority is ignoring important, and in my view weighty authority that mandamus can and should be considered a proper vehicle for review of a determination to close a pretrial proceeding such as…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Gannett Co. v. DePasqualeSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Agricultural Labor Relations Board v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
  3. Nathanson v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1974
  4. Hulme v. WoleslagelSupreme Court of Kansas · 1972
  5. Williams v. StaffordWyoming Supreme Court · 1979

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