O'Melia v. Sweetwater County School District No. 1

On March 5, 1971, Joseph E. Roush, a continuing contract teacher, and Joseph O’Melia, an initial contract teacher, 1 at Wamsutter, Wyoming, filed separate actions, each seeking a declaratory judgment in the district court which would provide an opportunity to continue their employment as teachers subsequent to the time they had been advised by the authorities that teachers of the district must reside in Wamsutter five days a week, that this policy was a condition of the teaching contract, and that the district was aware of the two teachers commuting to Rawlins (forty miles distant) each day…