Lietz v. State ex rel. Dep't of Family Servs.

DAVIS, Chief Justice.

*312[¶ 1] This appeal involves Lucy Lietz's nearly nine year effort to challenge her termination by the Wyoming Department of Family Services (DFS). DFS dismissed Ms. Lietz from her position as a fraud investigator when it discovered that she signed daycare logs for her grandchildren that resulted in overpayment of DFS child care benefits to daycare providers in the amount of $196.95. Ms. Lietz appealed, and the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) reversed. DFS appealed, and the district court found that the OAH erred as a matter of law because it failed to apply the Life…