Opinion ID: 1391747
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Heading: Abrogation of Governmental Immunity

Text: Introductorily, we acknowledge that in Wyoming the state of the law of governmental immunity in related areas at all times relevant hereto was as follows: Immunity is removed as a defense to tort actions at all levels of government below the State itself. Oroz v. Board of County Commissioners of Carbon County, Wyo., 575 P.2d 1155, 1158 (1978). In so holding, we determined that the genesis of the doctrine of governmental immunity is in Russell v. The Men of Devon, 2 Term. Rep. 667, 100 Eng.Rep. 359 (1788), an old English case which is almost universally credited with being the mother of the concept. We reasoned that if immunity could be court-created, it could be court-abrogated. [7]