Oklahoma Supreme Court Decisions 2018
Date: December 19, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 104
Date: December 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 102
Docket Number: 116434
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, the Purcell, Oklahoma Police Department arrested the petitioner-appellee, D. A. for Larceny of CDS (a controlled dangerous substance), unlawful possession of CDS and obtaining CDS by forgery/fraud. The State…
Date: December 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 100
Docket Number: 116510
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Kelli Braitsch injured her right arm while employed by the City of Tulsa and after the effective date of the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act (AWCA). Through her collective bargaining agreement,…
Date: December 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 101
Docket Number: SCBD-6604
Date: December 17, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 98
Docket Number: SCBD-5703
Date: December 17, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 99
Docket Number: SCBD-6734
Date: December 11, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 97
Docket Number: SCBD-6548
Date: December 11, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 95
Docket Number: SCBD-6728
Date: December 10, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 94
Docket Number: 6712
Date: December 4, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 91
Docket Number: 115474
Justia Opinion Summary: Husband and Wife were divorced following a four-day trial. On June 30, 2016, a Decree of Dissolution of Marriage, memorializing the trial court's rulings, was filed in the proceeding. On July 15, 2016, Husband and Wife…
Date: December 4, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 93
Docket Number: 116494
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, DHS removed R.M, C.M., and E.M., then eight (8) years and six (6) months, six (6) years and ten (10) months, and four (4) years and ten (10) months old respectively, from Mother's custody. The questions this…
Date: December 4, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 90
Docket Numbers: 117103, 117107, 117154
Justia Opinion Summary: Russell Foutch and Randall Barrios died while incarcerated in Oklahoma jails: Barrios by his own hand; Foutch from complications related to pneumonia. Their estates sued the respective jails, one sheriff, and various…
Date: December 3, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 92
Docket Numbers: SCBD-6644, Rule 6.2A
Date: November 20, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 89
Docket Number: SCBD-6630
Date: November 14, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 88
Docket Number: 117233
Date: November 13, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 86
Docket Number: SCBD-6707
Date: November 13, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 87
Docket Number: SCBD-6708
Date: October 30, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 85
Docket Number: SCBD-6557
Date: October 29, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 84
Docket Number: SCBD-6684
Date: October 23, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 83
Docket Number: 115992
Justia Opinion Summary: The district court found respondent-appellant Warren Ellis, Jr. guilty of contempt related to his failure to follow the terms of a divorce decree and separation agreement. Ellis appealed when the trial court issued a…
Date: October 23, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 81
Docket Number: 116224
Date: October 22, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 82
Docket Number: SCBD-6611
Date: October 8, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 80
Date: October 8, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 79
Docket Number: SCBD-3319
Date: September 25, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 77
Docket Number: 116465
Justia Opinion Summary: Mother gave birth to Child J.L.O. in 2016. When Child was less than two weeks old, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) removed Child from Mother's custody, and shortly thereafter the State filed a petition…
Date: September 25, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 78
Docket Number: SCBD-6551
Date: September 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 68
Docket Number: 114833
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Trina Engles received temporary total disability benefits in 2006, for a December 2, 2005 injury. She had fallen backwards in a chair at work, which caused the injury. On January 15, 2010, Engles received…
Date: September 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 70
Docket Numbers: 115557, Comp. w/115558, 115717, Comp. w/115557, 115558
Date: September 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 69
Docket Numbers: 115557, Comp. w/115558, 115717, Comp. w/115557, 115558
Date: September 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 72
Docket Number: 116163
Date: September 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 75
Docket Number: 116489
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a 2015 motor vehicle accident between Ronald Fox and James Mize in Norman, Oklahoma. Mize was traveling northbound on Sunnylane Road in a tractor-trailer owned by his employer, Van Eaton Ready Mix,…
Date: September 17, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 76
Docket Number: SCBD-6596
Date: September 11, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 65
Docket Number: 113571
Justia Opinion Summary: The petitioner-employer sought review of the Workers' Compensation Court of Existing Claims which upheld a trial court's determination that respondent-employee Jennifer Hodge suffered a change of condition for the worse…
Date: September 11, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 67
Docket Number: SCBD-6656
Date: September 10, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 66
Docket Number: SCBD-6558
Date: September 10, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 64
Docket Number: SCBD-6676
Date: September 10, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 63
Docket Number: SCBD-6677
Date: July 23, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 62
Docket Number: SCBD-6613
Date: July 17, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 61
Docket Number: SCBD-6612
Date: June 26, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 58
Docket Number: 114809
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, John Burks was a bondsman who posted one hundred thousand dollar ($100,000) bail for defendant Billy Durfey in a criminal case. Durfey did not appear in court and the court forfeited the bond. On December 15,…
Date: June 26, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 59
Docket Number: 115078
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal centered on the trial court's judgment after a bench trial that denied the Appellant's petition to cancel Appellee's oil and gas leases, to quiet title in favor of the Appellant's "top leases," and to hold…
Date: June 26, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 57
Docket Number: 115558
Justia Opinion Summary: The question before the Oklahoma Supreme Court in this case centered on whether evidence in the underlying workers compensation proceeding should have been excluded by the administrative law judge, as well as the…
Date: June 26, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 54
Docket Numbers: 116337, 116341
Justia Opinion Summary: CompSource Mutual Insurance Company and the Oklahoma Association of Electric Self Insurers requested rebates from the Oklahoma Tax Commission based upon previously paid Multiple Injury Trust Fund assessments. The…
Date: June 26, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 56
Docket Number: 116672
Justia Opinion Summary: Daniel Phillips was convicted of multiple counts of indecent or lewd acts with children under the age of sixteen. The mother of the children sued Phillips, alleging various torts arising out of his crimes. The mother…
Date: June 22, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 55
Docket Number: 117020
Justia Opinion Summary: On May 1, 2018, Respondents-proponents Dr. Tom Coburn, Brooke McGowan, and Ronda Vuillemont-Smith timely filed Referendum Petition No. 25, State Question No. 799 (the petition) with the Oklahoma Secretary of State. The…
Date: June 19, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 51
Docket Number: 113142
Justia Opinion Summary: The estate of a driver killed in a vehicle/train collision sued a railroad company in a wrongful death action. The District Court entered judgment on the jury verdict finding the driver and railroad negligent and…
Date: June 19, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 53
Docket Number: SCBD-6419
Date: June 19, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 52
Docket Number: SCBD-6614
Date: June 18, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 50
Date: June 11, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 49
Date: June 11, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 47
Docket Number: SCBD-6510
Date: June 11, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 48
Docket Number: SCBD-6511
Date: June 4, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 46
Docket Number: SCBD-6626
Date: June 4, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 44
Docket Number: SCBD-6659
Date: June 4, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 45
Docket Number: SCBD-6660
Date: May 29, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 43
Docket Number: SCBD-6533
Date: May 15, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 42
Docket Number: 115159
Justia Opinion Summary: This case centered on a dispute between Green Meadow Realty Co. (Realtor) and Roger and Mary Gillock (Owners) over Realtor's right to a commission. Realtor sued to recover a commission on a sale to certain buyers that…
Date: May 15, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 41
Docket Number: SCBD-6517
Date: May 8, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 40
Docket Number: 113899
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Octavio Pina was employed as a pipeline installer by American Piping Inspection, Inc. At the time of his injury, he worked at an oilrig site approximately 130 miles away from his home. Petitioner traveled…
Date: May 8, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 39
Docket Number: 115440
Justia Opinion Summary: Prior to the Oklahoma Voter ID Act, Title 26, Section 7-114 required that "[e]ach person presenting himself to vote shall announce his name to the judge of the precinct, whereupon the judge shall determine whether said…
Date: May 7, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 38
Date: May 7, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 36
Docket Numbers: SCBD-6644, Rule 6.2A
Date: May 1, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 35
Docket Number: 115130
Justia Opinion Summary: James David Lind, Sr. (Decedent) was an employee of Defendant-appellee Barnes Tag Agency Inc. (BTA). Decedent was hired in 2010, to perform maintenance work on property owned individually by Defendant Jim T. Roy Barnes…
Date: April 24, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 31
Docket Numbers: w/115030, 115029
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved an order of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission that granted Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company pre-approval to install pollution-control devices at one of its power plants. The order raised two issues:…
Date: April 24, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 32
Docket Number: 115383
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, plaintiffs-appellants, Taracorp and Tara and Kelly Barlean, (collectively Taracorp) obtained a default judgment against defendants-appellees, Jeff Dailey and AJ's Bargain World in Colorado. Three days later,…
Date: April 24, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 34
Docket Number: 115550
Justia Opinion Summary: Within the 2006 through 2010 tax years, the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the Oklahoma State Board of Equalization issued certified assessments of certain public property physically located within the boundaries of the…
Date: April 10, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 29
Date: April 10, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 28
Docket Number: SCBD-6534
Date: April 3, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 27
Docket Number: 114442
Justia Opinion Summary: Insight Equity, a private-equity firm headquartered in Southlake, Texas, purchased Berry Family Nurseries, a nationwide wholesale nursery company headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for $160 million. The Purchase…
Date: March 19, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 24
Docket Number: 116679
Date: March 19, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 25
Docket Number: 116680
Justia Opinion Summary: On December 20, 2017, Respondents Michael Thompson, Ray Potts, and Mary Lynn Peacher (collectively, Proponents) filed Initiative Petition No. 416, State Question No. 795 (IP 416) with the Oklahoma Secretary of State. IP…
Date: March 19, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 26
Docket Number: 116682
Date: March 13, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 21
Docket Number: 115136
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, Frank Benedetti, an employee of Schlumberger Technology Corporation, was working on an oil rig near El Reno, Oklahoma, when he slipped on an icy platform and fell more than thirty feet down a stairwell.…
Date: March 13, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 23
Docket Number: 116554
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit certified a question of Oklahoma law to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Plaintiff-Appellant Perry Odom was an employee of Penske Logistics, LLC. Penske Logistics, LLC…
Date: March 12, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 20
Date: March 12, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 22
Docket Number: SCBD-6505
Date: March 6, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 17
Docket Number: 114045
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Supreme Court granted certiorari to address whether defendants-appellees, whose products were used to make an ambulance helicopter, had sufficient minimum contacts with the State of Oklahoma in order to…
Date: March 6, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 18
Docket Numbers: 115782, Comp. w/115869
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-respondents filed this negligence suit alleging that minor plaintiff, H.R., was struck by a car driven by Defendant Alexandria Maze, after H.R. exited from a school bus operated by Defendant Norman Public…
Date: March 6, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 19
Docket Number: SCBD-6597
Date: February 26, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 16
Docket Number: SCBD-2109
Date: February 26, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 15
Docket Number: SCBD-4483
Date: February 13, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 14
Docket Number: 116394
Date: February 6, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 12
Docket Number: 113035
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Stacy Gaasch, as personal representative for the Estate of Troy Gaasch, filed suit against St. Paul File and Marine Insurance Company, alleging the insurance company failed to timely provide reasonable and…
Date: February 6, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 13
Docket Number: 115938
Justia Opinion Summary: Initiative Petition No. 415, State Question No. 793, proposed to amend Article 20 of the Oklahoma Constitution by adding a new Section 3. The purpose of the amendment was to merge the rights and restrictions placed on…
Date: February 5, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 11
Docket Numbers: 115285, 115281, 115293
Date: January 30, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 9
Docket Number: 114314
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant Elizabeth Cates was a former patient of defendant-appellee Integris Health, Inc.’s medical facility and claimed defendant wrongfully billed her, and others like her, for services. She filed this…
Date: January 30, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 7
Docket Number: 115227
Justia Opinion Summary: The probate court disqualified one of two co-personal representatives nominated in decedent's will. The disqualified nominee had a felony conviction for DUI. The probate court ruled that this was a conviction for an…
Date: January 30, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 10
Date: January 30, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 8
Docket Number: SCBD-6496
Date: January 23, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 6
Docket Number: 115635
Justia Opinion Summary: An employee of a trucking company was killed while on the job at an oil-well site. The employee's surviving daughter brought a wrongful death action against the owner and operator of the well site, Stephens Production…
Date: January 17, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 1
Docket Number: 114237
Justia Opinion Summary: The question this case presented for the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s review was whether the trial court's order declaring M.A.S. eligible for adoption without the biological father's consent, pursuant to Okla. Stat. tit.…
Date: January 17, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 5
Docket Number: SCBD-6585
Date: January 16, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 2
Date: January 16, 2018
Citation: 2018 OK 4
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