Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure
103 rules across 10 groups · 97 active
Wyoming's civil-procedure rules are cited as “Wyo. R. Civ. P.” (or “W.R.C.P.” in state practice) and were adopted by the Supreme Court of Wyoming. They are organized into 10 groups, from general scope and commencement of an action through discovery, trials, judgment, provisional remedies and special proceedings, district courts and clerks, and general provisions. Browse the full set below, with verbatim rule text, amendment history, and a plain-English summary for every rule.
I. Scope of Rules; One Form of Action
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 2 active rules · 2 in the official compilation
II. Commencement of Action; Service of Process: Pleadings, Motions, and Orders
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 7 active rules · 8 in the official compilation
III. Pleadings and Motions
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 11 active rules · 11 in the official compilation
- Rule 7 Pleadings allowed; form of motions and other papers
- Rule 8 General rules of pleading
- Rule 9 Pleading special matters
- Rule 10 Form of pleadings
- Rule 11 Signing pleadings, motions, and other papers; representations to the court; sanctions
- Rule 12 When and how presented; motion for judgment on the pleadings; consolidating motions; waiving defenses; pretrial hearing
- Rule 12.1 Change of venue
- Rule 13 Counterclaim and crossclaim
- Rule 14 Third-party practice
- Rule 15 Amended and supplemental pleadings
- Rule 16 Pretrial conferences; scheduling; management
IV. Parties
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 11 active rules · 11 in the official compilation
- Rule 17 Plaintiff and defendant; capacity; public officers
- Rule 18 Joinder of claims
- Rule 19 Required joinder of parties
- Rule 20 Permissive joinder of parties
- Rule 21 Misjoinder and nonjoinder of parties
- Rule 22 Interpleader
- Rule 23 Class actions
- Rule 23.1 Derivative actions
- Rule 23.2 Actions relating to unincorporated associations
- Rule 24 Intervention
- Rule 25 Substitution of parties
V. Depositions and Discovery
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 13 active rules · 13 in the official compilation
- Rule 26 Duty to disclose; general provisions governing discovery
- Rule 27 Depositions to perpetuate testimony
- Rule 28 Persons before whom depositions may be taken
- Rule 29 Stipulations about discovery procedure
- Rule 30 Depositions by oral examination
- Rule 30.1 Remote depositions
- Rule 31 Depositions by written questions
- Rule 32 Using depositions in court proceedings
- Rule 33 Interrogatories to parties
- Rule 34 Producing documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things, or entering onto land for inspection and other purposes
- Rule 35 Physical and mental examinations
- Rule 36 Requests for admission
- Rule 37 Failure to make disclosures or to cooperate in discovery; sanctions
VI. Trials
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 21 active rules · 21 in the official compilation
- Rule 38 Right to a jury trial; demand
- Rule 39 Trial by jury or by the court
- Rule 39.1 Jury trial; jury note taking; juror notebooks
- Rule 39.2 Juror questionnaires
- Rule 39.3 Copies of instructions for jurors
- Rule 39.4 Juror questions for witnesses
- Rule 40 Assignment for trial or alternative dispute resolution
- Rule 40.1 Transfer of trial and change of judge
- Rule 41 Dismissal of actions
- Rule 42 Consolidation; separate trials
- Rule 43 Taking testimony
- Rule 44 Determining foreign law
- Rule 45 Subpoena
- Rule 46 Objecting to a ruling or order
- Rule 47 Selecting jurors for trial
- Rule 48 Number of jurors; verdict; polling
- Rule 49 Special verdict; general verdict and questions
- Rule 50 Judgment as a matter of law in jury trials; alternative motion for new trial; conditional rulings
- Rule 51 Instructions to the jury; objections; preserving a claim of error
- Rule 52 Findings by the court; judgment on partial findings; reserved questions
- Rule 53 Masters
VII. Judgment
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 12 active rules · 12 in the official compilation
- Rule 54 Judgment; costs
- Rule 55 Default; default judgment
- Rule 56 Summary judgment
- Rule 56.1 Summary judgment -- required statement of material facts
- Rule 57 Declaratory judgment
- Rule 58 Entering judgment
- Rule 59 New trial; altering or amending a judgment
- Rule 60 Relief from a judgment or order
- Rule 61 Harmless error
- Rule 62 Stay of proceedings to enforce a judgment
- Rule 62.1 Indicative ruling on a motion for relief that is barred by a pending appeal
- Rule 63 Judge's inability to proceed
VIII. Provisional and Final Remedies and Special Proceedings
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 10 active rules · 15 in the official compilation
- Rule 64 Seizing a person or property
- Rule 65 Injunctions and restraining orders
- Rule 65.1 Proceedings against a surety
- Rule 66 Receivers
- Rule 67 Deposit into court
- Rule 68 Offer of settlement or judgment
- Rule 69 Execution
- Rule 70 Enforcing a judgment for a specific act
- Rule 71 Enforcing relief for or against a nonparty
- Rule 71.1 Condemnation of property
- Rule 72 Not adopted Not adopted
- Rule 73 Not adopted Not adopted
- Rule 74 Not adopted Not adopted
- Rule 75 Not adopted Not adopted
- Rule 76 Not adopted Not adopted
IX. District Courts and Clerks
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 4 active rules · 4 in the official compilation
X. General Provisions
Cited as W.R.C.P. · 6 active rules · 6 in the official compilation
Rule 3.1 is printed in the official rules as "[Repealed]" with no rule text, and is shown unlinked. Rules 72 through 76 are a genuine numbering gap -- no rule was ever adopted under those numbers, confirmed against both the official source's own Table of Contents and a corpus-wide search of the rule text itself, which likewise has no trace of them -- and are shown as one muted "Not adopted" row each. All other numbers reconciled against the official source are active.