Hoem v. State

After reviewing the opinion of the court, the special concurrence and this dissent, I am left with the nagging feeling that if the supreme court is not a debating society, it will surely do until the real thing comes along. Debating society or not, there is not a single thoughtful or provocative opinion nor any scholarly authority that supports holding the Wyoming Medical Review Panel Act unconstitutional. Cases cited by the court to support its holding concern statutes that differ materially from the Wyoming act. Applying correct standards of review and constitutional determination, there…