Court Opinion

ID: 9548517
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:04:51.812966+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:05.026687
License: Public Domain

URBIGKIT, Justice,
concurring.
I concur. However, I do not agree that available source material on legislative intent should necessarily be proscribed. Theories of legislative intent abound and have been variously avoided or implicitly considered in the jurisprudence history of this state. Cf. this writer’s dissent to the order denying reconsideration in State, Board of Land Commissioners v. Lonesome Fox Corporation, Wyo., 714 P.2d 783 (1986), with the opinion in the original case, State, Board of Land Commissioners v. Lonesome Fox Corporation, Wyo., 707 P.2d 167 (1985), and this writer’s dissent to the order on rehearing in Matter of Adoption of BGD, Wyo., 719 P.2d 1373 (1986).
I would not find either legislative history review or statutory construction philosophy intrinsically invoked in the affirmance of this case. However, attention to the subject in an early case would be more than justified, for direction not only to the bar and bench, but to the legislature in particular, due to an obvious need for improved legislative records and history to afford the possibility of further substance and weight in this court’s interpretative effort.