Rule 9 - Procedural and evidentiary rules applicable (a) Rules 5-8, 10-11, 15-16, 29-30, 32-37, 42, 45-46, 56, 58 and 60-61 of the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure shall apply to all proceedings before the Commission or its panels so far as the provisions in those rules are in their nature applicable and consistent with these rules. (b) All hearings before the adjudicatory panel shall be conducted in accordance with the Wyoming Rules of Evidence. (c) By presenting to the Commission or its panels, whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating, a pleading, written motion, or other paper, an attorney or unrepresented party is certifying that to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances: (1) it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation; (2) the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions therein are warranted by existing law or by a non-frivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law; (3) the allegations and other factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, are likely to have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery; and (4) the denials of factual contentions are warranted on the evidence or, if specifically so identified, are reasonably based on a lack of information or belief. Adopted January 8, 2014, effective April 1, 2014.