Mondt v. Cheyenne Police Department

GOLDEN, Justice.

A non-probationary police officer in the service of the City of Cheyenne, whose employment relationship is governed by the state’s civil service law found in Wyo. Stat. §§ 15-5-101 through 121, challenges her forty-hour suspension without pay by her police chief. .Her challenge requires us to answer three important questions which lie at the heart of her public employment relationship:

1.. Whether she has a constitutionally protected property interest in her .continued public employment;

2. If she does, whether a forty-hour suspension without pay from that employment constitutes…