The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a high-profile case over “corner-crossing” on Western lands, leaving intact a ruling that allows individuals to step over private property as they move from one public parcel to another.
The court’s decision not to hear the appeal filed by a prominent Wyoming rancher, issued as is customary without written explanation or recorded vote, means an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remains the binding law over six Western states.
The Supreme Court’s decision was welcomed by an attorney for four hunters who had been charged with trespassing.
“Landowners have never had the right to exclude the public from public land,” attorney Ryan Semerad said. “Today, the Supreme Court refused to review the 10th Circuit’s opinion affirming this longstanding American principle.”
