Wyoming Steel & Fab, Inc. v. Robles

THOMAS, Justice.

The concern in this case is with the proper approach to judicial review when an administrative agency has ruled a party to a contested case hearing has failed to meet that party’s burden of proof. In this worker’s compensation case, the administrative hearing examiner ruled the injured workman had failed to meet his assigned burden of proof to establish the injury was work related. In a judicial review proceeding, the district court held the administrative agency had erred in failing to award worker’s compensation benefits because there was substantial evidence in the record…