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- Title: Wyoming Steel & Fab, Inc. v. Robles
- Author : Supreme Court of Wyoming
- Release Date : January 07, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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The concern in this case is with the proper approach to judicial review when an administrative agency has ruled a party to
a contested case hearing has failed to meet that party's burden of proof. In this worker's compensation case, the administrative
hearing examiner ruled the injured workman had failed to meet his assigned burden of proof to establish the injury was work
related. In a judicial review proceeding, the district court held the administrative agency had erred in failing to award
worker's compensation benefits because there was substantial evidence in the record to demonstrate the injury was work related.
The district court reversed the order of the administrative hearing examiner and ordered payment of the claimed benefits.
We hold the district court erred by weighing the evidence, which is the agency prerogative, and the decision of the district
court is reversed with instructions to affirm the decision of the administrative hearing examiner. Wyoming Steel & Fab, Inc. (Wyoming Steel) in its Brief of Appellant offers these issues for resolution: