Legal Opinion · Dissent

Cooney v. Park County

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided April 18, 1990No. 88-174Published

1DissentUrbigkit, Justice

I. THE ISSUE IN PERSPECTIVE

This case questions whether society provides a remedy when public officials commit perjury, suborn perjury and acknowledge commission of perjury in the pointless and almost random incarceration of a person without justification. In refusing to consider only disbarment, censure or criminal prosecution, none of which will occur, I will not reject civil damages for at least an attainable alternative. This is civil war; not by members of the society against the government, but by representatives of government against its citizens. This is statism1 at its worst. This is…

2Cases cited228 opinions

  1. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
  4. Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  5. Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938

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