Court Opinion

ID: 9796319
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:55:07.911362+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:49:59.344487
License: Public Domain

KITE, Justice,
dissenting, in which BURKE, Justice, joins.
[T4] I dissent for the same reasons articulated in Justice Burke's dissenting opinion in McCann v. City of Cody, 2009 WY 86, ¶ 9, 210 P.3d 1078, 1082 (Wyo.2009). That is, the allegations of the complaint, when viewed in the light most favorable to Uptown Cafe, sufficiently allege the conditions precedent for filing a claim against the Town of Grey-bull to invoke the district court's subject matter jurisdiction. Additionally, if the complaint is insufficient, Uptown Cafe should be allowed to amend it. Finally, if the rules created by a majority of this Court for pleading a governmental claim lead to the conclusion that this complaint is legally insufficient and Uptown Cafe is not permitted to amend it, those rules should be abolished because they "serve no useful purpose, and create unwarranted obstacles to the determination of governmental claims on their merits." Id.