Supreme Court to confer on whether to hear Wyoming corner

The U.S. Supreme Court justices are scheduled to confer behind closed doors on Oct. 17 about whether to take up a Carbon County landowner’s lawsuit that challenges public access to public land at checkerboard corners in Wyoming.

The court listed the case Tuesday for its long conference later this month. Justices could decide within days of the conference whether to hear the appeal by Elk Mountain Ranch owner Fred Eshelman and his Iron Bar Holdings company. The court could alternatively push back its consideration to another conference or deny his petition.

Eshelman, owner of the 20,000-plus-acre ranch, on Wednesday filed the last pleadings before the conference, urging the justices to take up the case and resolve “a 150-year conflict touching on the core of property law and, simultaneous