As amended through April 30, 2019
Rule 6 - Procedure and Opinions (a) Requests for formal advisory opinions shall be submitted in writing to the chairman of the committee and shall be accompanied by a letter or memorandum describing the facts and discussing the issues presented in the request. (b) By concurrence of a majority of its members and subject to the approval of the Supreme Court, the committee may adopt other procedural rules relating to requests for advisory opinions and the issuance of opinions. (c) The committee may render written opinions only by an affirmative vote of at least three members. (d) All opinions shall be advisory only, and no opinion shall be binding on the Wyoming Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics in the exercise of its judicial discipline responsibilities. However, the Wyoming Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics or the Wyoming Supreme Court may consider compliance with an opinion by the requesting individual to be evidence of a good faith effort to comply with the Wyoming Code of Judicial Conduct, provided that compliance with the opinion issued to one judge shall not be considered evidence of good faith of another judge unless the facts are substantially the same and the other judge had actual knowledge of and acted in reliance upon the opinion. (e) The committee shall publish its opinions on the Wyoming Supreme Court web site, but the name of the judge requesting the opinion and any other identifying information shall not be included in a published opinion unless the judge consents to such inclusion in writing. (f) The State Court Administrator, or his or her designee, as secretary to the Board of Judicial Policy and Administration, shall maintain the opinions and records of the committee. Adopted April 1, 2010, effective July 1, 2010.