Washakie County School District Number One, Donna Moberly, Mary Jane Schmeltzer, Randall Rideout, Harold McDonald…

Summary

The Wyoming Supreme Court reversed dismissal of a declaratory-judgment action challenging the statewide public-school financing system and held that the system violates the Wyoming Constitution's equal-protection and uniform-education requirements. The court concluded that the plaintiffs had stated a claim, had standing, presented a justiciable controversy, properly served the Attorney General, and sought a legally permissible remedy. Because property-tax wealth produced substantial disparities in per-student resources, the court ordered the legislature to adopt a constitutionally compliant financing system by July 1, 1982, later extended to July 1, 1983; no separate opinions were included.