# Cranston v. Thomson

> Wyoming Supreme Court · January 17, 1975 · 530 P.2d 726

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9791373

## Case

- **Full name:** Albert H. CRANSTON Et Al., Appellants (Plaintiffs Below), Wyoming Political Action Committee for Education and Wyoming State AFL-CIO (Intervenors Below), v. Thyra THOMSON, Secretary of State, Et Al., Appellees (Defendants Below); WYOMING POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FOR EDUCATION, Appellant (Intervenor Below), Wyoming State AFL-CIO Intervenor Below), and Albert H. Cranston Et Al., (Plaintiffs Below), v. Thyra THOMSON, Secretary of State Et Al., Appellees (Defendants Below); WYOMING STATE AFL-CIO, Appellant (Intervenor Below), Wyoming Political Action Committee for Education (Intervenor Below), and Albert H. Cranston Et Al., (Plaintiffs Below), v. Thyra THOMSON, Secretary of State, Et Al., Appellees (Defendants Below)
- **Court:** Wyoming Supreme Court
- **Decided:** January 17, 1975
- **Citations:** 530 P.2d 726
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Armstrong
- **Judges:** Parker, McEwan, Guthrie, McClintock, Armstrong
- **Cited by:** 26 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

ARMSTRONG, District Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the majority opinion, especially with respect to the lack of a justicia-ble controversy on the part of the interve-nors. I agree that the threshold to the successful maintenance of a declaratory judgment action is the clear demonstration of such a controversy.
The dissent in this case, and the majority opinion in Brimmer, approximate advisory opinions, from which everyone seems to shy away.
Semantics aside, in a case of this kind where a sizeable public interest is involved and where the legislature has presently pending a bill to amend the Frisby amendment, it behooves me to state candidly that if a controversy had been shown I would have concurred with the dissent in declaring the offensive section of the amendment unconstitutional.

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