Court Opinion

ID: 9391885
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Date Created: 2023-05-03 15:13:42.049783+00
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IN THE SUPREME COURT, STATE OF WYOMING

                                     2023 WY 41

                                                               April Term, A.D. 2023

                                                                     May 3, 2023

 BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL
 RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING
 STATE BAR,

 Petitioner,
                                                  D-21-0004
 v.

 HAMPTON M. YOUNG, WSB
 #6-3672,

 Respondent.

      ORDER REINSTATING ATTORNEY TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW
[¶1] This matter came before the Court upon a Report and Recommendation for
Reinstatement filed herein April 13, 2023, by a panel of the Board of Professional
Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar, pursuant to a stipulation under Rule 22(b)(6)(B)
of the Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure. By order entered February 2, 2022, this
Court suspended Respondent from the practice of law for one year, with the period of
suspension to begin February 4, 2022. Bd. of Pro. Resp., Wyoming State Bar v. Young,
2022 WY 20, 503 P.3d 80 (Wyo. 2022). Respondent timely sought reinstatement. Now,
after a careful review of the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and
Recommendation for Reinstatement and the file, this Court finds that the Report and
Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that the
Respondent Hampton M. Young should be reinstated to the practice of law. It is, therefore,

[¶2] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility’s
Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, which is attached hereto and incorporated
herein, shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed and adopted by this Court;
and it is further
[¶3] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Respondent, Hampton M. Young, be, and
hereby is, reinstated to the practice of law in Wyoming, effective immediately; and it is
further

[¶4] ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 9(b) Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure,
this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report
and Recommendation for Reinstatement, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and
the Pacific Reporter; and it is further

[¶5] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order Reinstating Attorney
to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for
Reinstatement, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is
further

[¶6] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order Reinstating
Attorney to the Practice of Law to the members of the Board of Professional Responsibility
and to the clerks of the appropriate courts of the State of Wyoming.

[¶7] DATED this 3rd day of May, 2023.

                                                 BY THE COURT:

                                                 /s/

                                                 KATE M. FOX
                                                 Chief Justice