Legal Opinion
Routh v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation Division
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided January 20, 1998No. 96-291PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Justice.
The only issue before the Court in this casé is whether, pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, full faith and credit must be afforded to a judgment entered in a Mississippi court against the Workers’ Compensation Division (the Division), an agency of the State of Wyoming. Claude V. Routh (Routh) was injured in Wyoming in November of 1985 while working in covered employment under the Wyoming Worker’s Compensation Act. Wyo. Stat. §§ 27-12-101 to -804 (1983). After receiving benefits in the form of temporary total disability payments and the payment of medical…
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