Corner-crossing petition to Supreme Court employs successful past strategies

As Supreme Court justices meet Friday to consider hearing the Wyoming corner-crossing case, attorneys for ranch owner Fred Eshelman are citing reasons that others have successfully employed to get their cases accepted for review.

The Supreme Court should accept Eshelman’s petition and hear the case because, his attorneys say, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision on corner crossing “contravenes” Supreme Court precedent. The case also has “profound legal and practical importance,” Eshelman argues.

Eshelman is appealing the 10th Circuit Court’s decision that he cannot block the public from corner crossing to reach public land surrounded by his Carbon County ranch. He sued four Missouri hunters who stepped from one piece of public property to another adjacent one where the two met at