(DOWNLOAD) "Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Assn v. State" by Supreme Court of Wyoming ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Assn v. State
- Author : Supreme Court of Wyoming
- Release Date : January 04, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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Appellee, The Environmental Quality Council of the State of Wyoming (hereinafter referred to as appellee Council), promulgated certain rules and regulations on September 4, 1980, which undertook, among other things, to regulate discharges of commercial, municipal and industrial wastes, including "oil field wastes including water produced with oil and gas," and including "any discharge to the subsurface." Such rules and regulations require the obtaining of permits for such discharges. On November 14, 1980, appellants filed an action in the district court seeking (1) a judgment declaring that promulgated rules and regulations were invalid as being beyond and in excess of the powers and jurisdiction of appellees, and (2) an injunction restraining appellees from enforcing the provisions of such rules and regulations. The trial court granted appellees amended motion to dismiss the complaint and its causes. In doing so, it found that the doctrine of sovereign immunity precluded the action against appellees, and it based the dismissal upon this ground. It also found that the independent action for declaratory judgment would not lie inasmuch as it was "in the nature of a petition for review" of an administrative action and was not filed within the time allowed for such review. On appeal, appellants present the issue of whether or not the doctrine of sovereign immunity is applicable. And if it is not applicable, appellants present the additional issue of whether or not an action for declaratory judgment is available as an independent action.