Oklahoma Supreme Court Decisions 2016
Date: December 13, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 121
Docket Number: 114807
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the Oklahoma Supreme Court's review centered on the constitutionality of SB 1848, passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor on May 28, 2014. The effective date of the…
Date: December 13, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 124
Docket Number: 115345
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (Authority) wanted to issue revenue bonds for use in the construction of certain turnpike projects. Pursuant to 69 O.S.2011, section 1718, the Authority filed an application with the…
Date: December 12, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 122
Docket Number: SCBD-6469
Date: December 6, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 118
Docket Number: 112105
Justia Opinion Summary: BoDe Tower was an Oklahoma limited liability company which owned a tract of land in the Gooseneck Bend area of Muskogee County. In 2009, BoDe Tower began the process of securing authorization from state and federal…
Date: December 6, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 119
Docket Number: 113973
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2014, a Norman restaurant's surveillance video captured an incident depicting Joe Mixon striking a woman. The Norman Police Department (Department) was called to the location, investigated, and obtained and reviewed…
Date: December 6, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 120
Docket Numbers: 115155, 115154, 115153, 115152
Justia Opinion Summary: The Workers' Compensation Court issued two orders in two proceedings in 2008 and two orders in two proceedings in 2009. These four orders in four different proceedings required the Multiple Injury Trust Fund (Fund) to…
Date: November 15, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 117
Docket Number: 111780
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner-appellant and wife, Jennifer Baggs filed for divorce from her firefighter husband, respondent-appellee, Steven Baggs. As part of the firefighter retirement plan, the husband was vested in what was known as a…
Date: November 14, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 116
Docket Number: SCBD-6453
Date: November 8, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 114
Docket Number: 114660
Justia Opinion Summary: Insured Kourtni Martin suffered serious injuries from an automobile collision in Oklahoma City with Nicholas Gray. At the time of the collision, Insured had UM coverage with Goodville Mutual Casualty Company. The policy…
Date: November 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 112
Docket Number: 113000
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue in this cause is whether Plaintiff-appellant Rhonda Brown was estopped from asserting her status as the surviving spouse of the Decedent, Bobby Joe Brown, Jr. Plaintiff and Bobby Joe Brown, Jr. were married in…
Date: November 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 113
Docket Number: 113463
Justia Opinion Summary: Mustang Run Wind Project, LLC, (Mustang) filed an application with the Osage County Board of Adjustment for a conditional use permit involving approximately 9,500 acres of land. Mustang proposed to use the land for…
Date: October 25, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 110
Docket Number: 113489
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Sandra O'Donoghue, as personal representative of the estate of David O'Donoghue, brought suit seeking an adjudication that the estates of David L. Dooley's grandchildren, Erin and David O'Donoghue, were the…
Date: October 25, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 108
Docket Number: 114913
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant Steven Scott (grantor) owned real property in Canadian County. In 1997, Scott executed a warranty deed conveying 120 acres of the property to defendants-appellees Martin Peters, Jr. and Tammy Peters…
Date: October 25, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 109
Docket Number: SCBD-6333
Date: October 11, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 102
Docket Number: 112177
Justia Opinion Summary: While operating a large auger, James Neece, an employee of the plaintiff-appellee C&H Power Line Construction Company, ruptured an underground high pressure natural gas line belonging to the defendants-appellants…
Date: October 11, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 103
Docket Number: 113457
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue in this case was whether Father and Stepmother's adoption of the Child, at which proceedings the Child's biological maternal Grandmother did not appear, controlled the outcome of Grandmother's previously filed…
Date: October 11, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 106
Docket Number: 114676
Justia Opinion Summary: The focus of this appeal centered on the validity of HB 2630; 2014 Okla. Sess. Laws c. 375 (effective November 1, 2014). HB 2630 created the Retirement Freedom Act (74 O.S. Supp. 2014, sec. 935.1 et seq.), with the…
Date: October 11, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 107
Docket Number: 115226
Justia Opinion Summary: Drew Bowers (Ward) sustained a traumatic brain injury in 1981. As a result of the injury, he required 24-hour care. His mother, Patricia Bowers Edwards (Guardian) was appointed guardian of her son's person and property…
Date: October 10, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 101
Docket Number: SCBD-6412
Date: October 4, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 99
Docket Number: 114679
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue raised by this case for the Oklahoma Supreme Court's review concerned the constitutionality of SB 642, passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor on June 4, 2015, made effective November 1,…
Date: October 4, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 100
Docket Number: 114957
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs-appellants, sisters, Lisa Calvert and Teresa Roper were attorneys in fact for their father, Allen Downy, under a durable power of attorney. He owned Oklahoma real property which included mineral interests. In…
Date: September 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 95
Docket Number: 112497
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner-appellee Tracey Childers (wife) and Respondent-Appellant Kelly Childers (husband) were divorced pursuant to a Decree of Dissolution of Marriage that distributed their marital estate. The husband appealed the…
Date: September 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 96
Docket Number: 112535
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant Pat Blair brought an action alleging that a conveyance of real property from her grandmother to her sister, the defendant-appellee Gayle Richardson (grantee), was void because the grandmother…
Date: September 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 94
Docket Number: 114208
Justia Opinion Summary: Kyle Trusty was arrested for driving under the influence after crashing his vehicle. Trusty was taken to the hospital where he consented to a blood test to determine his blood alcohol content. The blood was drawn by a…
Date: September 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 97
Docket Number: 114563
Justia Opinion Summary: The primary question before the Oklahoma Supreme Court in this case was the constitutionality of 12 O.S. 2011 section 3009.1, limiting the admissibility of evidence of medical costs in personal injury actions. In 2014,…
Date: September 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 98
Docket Number: SCBD-6327
Date: September 19, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 91
Docket Number: SCBD-3490
Date: September 19, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 92
Docket Number: SCBD-4216
Date: September 19, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 93
Docket Number: SCBD-4483
Date: September 13, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 89
Docket Numbers: 114, 810
Justia Opinion Summary: Jonnie Vasquez, a Dillard's store employee, injured her neck and shoulder as she lifted shoe boxes while working. She filed claims for benefits under Dillard's Opt-Out plan, which were ultimately denied. The employer…
Date: September 13, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 88
Docket Number: 114552
Justia Opinion Summary: M.H.C. (child) was born in September of 2013. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) placed the child in protective custody on November 5, 2013. In the initial petition filed on November 18, 2013, the State…
Date: September 12, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 90
Date: August 8, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 86
Docket Number: 115164
Justia Opinion Summary: On April 21 and April 29, 2015, the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives, respectively, passed House Joint Resolution Number 1012, directing the Oklahoma Secretary of State to refer a proposed…
Date: August 8, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 87
Docket Number: 115190
Justia Opinion Summary: On January 27, 2016, the proponents of Initiative Petition No. 404, State Question 780 and Initiative Petition No. 405, State Question 781 (collectively Petitioners), filed both petitions and their ballot titles with the…
Date: August 2, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 85
Docket Number: SCBD-5964
Date: July 18, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 84
Docket Number: 115108
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2015, Respondents-Proponents Shawn Sheehan, Linda Reid, and Melvin Moran filed Initiative Petition No. 403 (State Question No. 779), with the Oklahoma Secretary of State. The petition sought to amend the Oklahoma…
Date: July 18, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 83
Docket Number: SCBD-6305
Date: June 28, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 79
Docket Number: 110013
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant-plaintiff Robert Leritz was a Kansas resident whose motorcycle and two other vehicles were garaged in Kansas under an insurance policy issued by Appellee, Farmers Insurance Company (Farmers) in Kansas.…
Date: June 28, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 82
Docket Number: 113305
Justia Opinion Summary: A. Todd Holliman worked as a Floor Hand on a four man crew for Twister Drilling Company (Employer) on a drilling rig. Holliman lived in Holdenville and the rig was located approximately forty miles away in Maud. Three…
Date: June 28, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 78
Docket Number: 114038
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Annette Legarde-Bober was employed by Employer Oklahoma State University at the Oklahoma City campus. She was a teacher at the child development lab (a childcare facility on the campus of OSU/OKC). The…
Date: June 28, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 81
Docket Number: SCBD-6375
Date: June 28, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 80
Docket Number: SCBD-6389
Date: June 27, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 76
Docket Number: SCBD-6272
Date: June 27, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 77
Docket Number: SCBD-6273
Date: June 21, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 73
Docket Number: 112538
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, Lacey & Associates, LLC, contracted with Everest Homes, LLC, to purchase a commercial building. In addition, Lacey and Everest executed an escrow agreement for the release of additional funds to Everest if the…
Date: June 21, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 74
Docket Number: 112777
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, a field engineer for Verdigris Valley Electric Cooperative (Employer) met with a contract electrician for Integrated Service Company LLC (INSERV) in Catoosa, concerning the installation of additional underground…
Date: June 21, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 71
Docket Number: 113427
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Jackie Watkins ("Watkins"), in her capacity as guardian of her adult daughter, Jane Doe, sought damages against defendants, Central State Griffin Memorial Hospital ("Griffin"), Oklahoma Department of Mental…
Date: June 21, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 72
Docket Number: SCBD-6329
Date: June 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 70
Date: June 14, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 69
Docket Number: 110665
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this medical malpractice action presented for the Supreme Court's review centered on orders excluding testimony from plaintiffs' two expert witnesses and a summary judgment granted to defendants based upon the…
Date: June 14, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 67
Docket Number: 113105
Justia Opinion Summary: Parties to an agreement regarding an area of mutual interest for the purposes of oil and gas exploration sought to determine their respective rights under the agreement. The agreement gave the respondents in this case…
Date: June 14, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 68
Docket Number: SCBD-6271
Date: June 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 65
Docket Numbers: 113313, Comp. w/113318
Justia Opinion Summary: Cottonwood Creek watershed was an area covering approximately 379 square miles in parts of Logan, Oklahoma, Canadian and Kingfisher Counties. The area was prone to flooding, and in March of 1962, Logan County Soil and…
Date: June 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 62
Docket Number: 114737
Justia Opinion Summary: Carla Maree was a nursing home resident at Willow Park Health Care Center, Lawton, Oklahoma. In early 2011, Carla Maree fell; two days later she died. Petitioner Mamie Maree, as personal representative of the estate of…
Date: June 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 66
Docket Number: SCBD-6067
Date: June 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 61
Docket Number: SCBD-6309
Date: June 6, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 64
Docket Number: SCBD-6396
Date: June 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 59
Docket Number: 114982
Date: June 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 60
Docket Number: 6349
Date: May 24, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 58
Docket Number: SCBD-6200
Date: May 24, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 56
Docket Number: SCBD-6319
Date: May 23, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 57
Docket Number: SCBD-6349
Date: May 17, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 55
Docket Number: 113978
Justia Opinion Summary: This legal battle began in 2006 when American Biomedical Group, Inc. (ABGI) and ABG Cattletraq, LLC (Cattletraq) filed a petition in the district court against Techtrol, Inc. and William Ardrey (Defendants); Defendants…
Date: May 9, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 52
Date: May 9, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 54
Date: May 9, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 53
Docket Number: SCBD-6385
Date: May 3, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 51
Docket Number: 114792
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue before the Oklahoma Supreme Court in this case was a challenge to the legal sufficiency of Initiative Petition No. 409. Respondents-proponents Retail Liquor Association of Oklahoma and Bryan Kerr filed…
Date: May 2, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 50
Date: May 2, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 48
Docket Number: SCBD-6384
Date: April 26, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 46
Docket Number: 112754
Justia Opinion Summary: Claimant James Loyd was awarded permanent partial disability benefits after being injured on the job. Loyd did not appeal, and the order became final. Less than a month after such order was issued, Loyd filed a "Form 9"…
Date: April 26, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 47
Docket Number: 113193
Justia Opinion Summary: Jimmy Pearman, Jr. (Pearman) and Theresa Pearman (Theresa) filed for divorce in 2012. The decree dissolving the marriage was memorialized in 2013, however, the parties continued their litigation over matters of child…
Date: April 25, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 45
Docket Number: SCBD-6382
Date: April 19, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 44
Docket Number: 111877
Justia Opinion Summary: This was a medical malpractice case premised in part on the doctrine of informed consent. Appellant Teresa Allen swallowed a small nail. She went to Duncan Regional Hospital's emergency room. Appellee John Harrison,…
Date: April 19, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 43
Docket Number: 112070
Justia Opinion Summary: Claimant Nancy Bruce worked as a Certified Nurse's Assistant, or "residential life staff aide," for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services for twenty-six years. Her duties consisted primarily of lifting clients,…
Date: April 19, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 42
Docket Number: 113735
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Cynthia Robinson worked as a Nurse's Aide for Employer Fairview Fellowship Home for Senior Citizens, and was injured in early 2014. Petitioner requested a finding of injury to her neck, left shoulder, and left…
Date: April 12, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 41
Docket Number: 113898
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2014, Petitioner Theresa Maxwell suffered an injury to her knee while working for her Employer, Respondent Sprint PCS. She promptly notified her Employer and timely filed a CC-Form-3 with the Workers' Compensation…
Date: April 12, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 40
Docket Number: 114192
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, Lahoma Pierson Hall (Ms. Hall) died in the care of hospice after a seven-day stay in AHS Tulsa Regional Medical Center (Hospital). On March 20, 2009, Appellants Kenneth Pierson, and Paula Taylor, (Ms. Hall's son…
Date: March 29, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 36
Docket Number: 112723
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant-Mother, Kayla Scocos, brought a post-decree motion in trial court to relocate with the parties' child from Oklahoma to Louisiana. Appellee-Father, Andrew Scocos, filed objection and sought immediate physical…
Date: March 29, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 38
Docket Number: 114481
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Michael Reynolds sued the Defendants-appellees, Mary Fallin, Governor of the State of Oklahoma; Ken Miller, Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma; Preston Doerflinger, State Director of the Office of Management…
Date: March 29, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 35
Docket Number: 114482
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant and Oklahoma taxpayer Robert Dani claimed certain property, which had previously been handed over to the State Treasurer pursuant to the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (UUPA), because it was presumed…
Date: March 29, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 37
Docket Number: SCBD-6268
Date: March 22, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 34
Docket Number: 114704
Date: March 22, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 33
Docket Number: SCBD-6237
Date: March 9, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 31
Docket Number: SCBD-6359
Date: March 8, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 28
Docket Number: 113098
Justia Opinion Summary: The Warr Acres Nursing Center terminated plaintiff Donald Moore's employment after he called in sick with influenza. The employee sued, alleging that he had been fired in violation of public policy. The trial court…
Date: March 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 30
Date: March 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 27
Docket Number: SCBD-6275
Date: March 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 29
Docket Number: SCBD-6349
Date: March 7, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 26
Docket Number: SCBD-6368
Date: March 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 20
Docket Number: 113649
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Yaumary Torres, a former employee of Seaboard Foods, LLC, filed a workers' compensation claim alleging she was injured on-the-job and needed surgery. Seaboard argued that she was barred from receiving workers'…
Date: March 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 25
Docket Numbers: SCBD-6243, Consol. w/SCBD-6244
Date: March 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 19
Docket Number: SCBD-6306
Date: February 29, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 21
Date: February 29, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 22
Date: February 23, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 18
Docket Number: 114023
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellee Guardian Interlock Network, Inc. installed an ignition interlock device in plaintiff-appellant, Nathan Heath's car. The device allowed Heath to start the vehicle if his breath/alcohol concentration did…
Date: February 23, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 17
Docket Number: 114307
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, the Oklahoma Legislature enacted H.B. 1970, prohibiting the off-label use of Mifeprex (generally known as "mifepristone" or "RU-486") and misoprostol (brand name Cytotec) for use in abortions. The effect of H.B.…
Date: February 16, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 15
Docket Number: 113267
Justia Opinion Summary: Several Oklahoma taxpayers filed a declaratory judgment action seeking a permanent injunction against Defendants, Joy Hofmeister, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Oklahoma State Department of…
Date: February 16, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 14
Docket Number: SCBD-6365
Date: February 9, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 12
Docket Numbers: SCBD-6202, 112677
Date: February 9, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 13
Docket Number: SCBD-6302
Date: February 2, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 11
Docket Number: SCBD-6156
Date: February 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 10
Docket Numbers: SCBD-6300, SCBD-6323
Date: February 1, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 9
Docket Number: SCBD-6356
Date: January 26, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 7
Docket Number: SCBD-6355
Date: January 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 6
Docket Number: 110720
Justia Opinion Summary: Carol Jean Carlson (Decedent) learned she was terminally ill in 2011, and retained an attorney to assist her in planning the disposition of her estate. Decedent executed three transfer-on-death deeds (TODDs) pursuant to…
Date: January 20, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 4
Docket Number: 113110
Justia Opinion Summary: The district court ordered the transfer of a minor child, S.A.W., to a foster-adoption home that was in compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Oklahoma Indian Child Welfare Act, and in the bests interests…
Date: January 19, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 5
Date: January 12, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 1
Docket Number: 114425
Justia Opinion Summary: Initiative Petition No. 403 sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution by adding a new Article 13-C. The proposed article would create the Oklahoma Education Improvement Fund, designed to provide for the improvement of…
Date: January 12, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 3
Docket Number: SCBD-6276
Date: January 11, 2016
Citation: 2016 OK 2
Docket Number: SCBD-6350
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