A Wyoming Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday kicked a lawsuit against a Cheyenne hospital over a little girl’s death back down to a lower court.

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center had asked the high court to dismiss a motion its lawyers had filed seeking immunity against a lawsuit the family of a 7-year-old girl had filed against the hospital.

Amilya Young, 7, died in 2021 after she was misdiagnosed and discharged from the emergency room despite having symptoms of tracheitis, an inflammation and infection of the windpipe that can be life-threatening in children, the lawsuit alleges.

Amilya died the next morning, prompting her family to file a lawsuit against the hospital.

While the hospital asserts that Amilya didn’t receive negligent care, CRMC’s main argument claims Cheyenne Regional ca

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