City of Laramie v. University of Wyoming

Docket number
S-23-0062
Date

Held that the University of Wyoming had common-law sovereign immunity from city’s attempt to enforce restrictive deed covenant pertaining to its drilling and operation of two wells for watering university’s landscaping including golf course; university was not similarly situated to other entities for purposes of equal protection challenge to statute governing university’s water system;
statute governing university’s water system was not an unconstitutional special law; statute governing university’s water system did not unconstitutionally delegate municipal power; and the city was statutorily barred from enforcing ordinance requiring city approval of nonmunicipal water drilling or systems within city.

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