Miller v. City of Laramie

CARDINE, Justice, Retired.

We granted a petition for review to consider Gerald R. Miller’s claim that his right of free speech, as guaranteed by Art. 1, § 20 of the Wyoming Constitution and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution was abridged by the City of Laramie’s littering ordinance. Petitioner Miller was convicted of the crime of littering for distributing his free newspaper, The Adviser, by house-to-house delivery.

We hold that the record here readily demonstrates that The Adviser burdened the City of Laramie in an extraordinarily minor way and that, likewise, the burden…