Gerry Spence

Aside from the notable University of Wyoming alumni, Laramie has its fair share of famous people.

Gerry Spence is one of the greatest courtroom lawyers in American legal history. After graduating from the University of Wyoming Law School in 1952, the Laramie native never lost a criminal case and hasn't lost a civil trial since 1969...

Next month marks the 35th anniversary of Wyoming's wildest court case. February 20, 1981, a jury awarded over $26 million in damages to former Miss Wyoming Kimerli Jayne Pring after she was libeled by Penthouse Magazine. Pring, who won the Miss Wyoming pageant in 1978, filed suit after Penthouse published a story in their August 1979 issue detailing the sexual exploits of a fictional character ide