Order Adopting Emergency Temporary Provision

Summary of Order issued September 24, 2007

Summaries are prepared by Law Librarians and are not official statements of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Order Adopting Emergency Temporary Provision to Article I, Section 3(d), Bylaws of the Wyoming State Bar

The matter came before the Court upon notification from the President, Wyoming State Bar, that there was a need for an emergency temporary addition to Article I, Section 3(d) regarding classes of membership, specifically, inactive status. The Court ordered that application of the requirement that an inactive member must be engaged in the active practice of law in this or another state for five years of the preceding seven in order to return to active status without examination may be waived for inactive members who can demonstrate that the member received advice from the Wyoming State Bar staff that they could return to active status without examination if the member returned within seven years of electing inactive status. Application under the temporary order must be received by the Bar Office no later than October 1, 2008. There shall be no appeal of denial under this provision.

The provision shall be automatically terminated and of no force as of November 1, 2008. Due to the temporary nature, it will not be published in the advance sheets of the Pacific Reporter, the Wyoming Reporter or the Wyoming Court Rules volume, but it will be posted on the Wyoming Supreme Court website, the Law Library website, and the Wyoming State Bar website.

C.J. Voigt delivered the order for the court.