Oklahoma Supreme Court Decisions 2019
Date: December 26, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 85
Date: December 17, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 80
Docket Number: 115360
Justia Opinion Summary: The estate of an individual that died as a result of an injury incurred while being a patient of a nursing home sued the nursing home facility in a wrongful death action. The district court entered default judgment for…
Date: December 17, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 83
Docket Number: 117491
Justia Opinion Summary: Video Gaming Technologies, Inc. ("VGT") contended the district court improperly granted summary judgment to the Rogers County Board of Tax Roll Collections ("Board"), the Rogers County Treasurer, and the Rogers County…
Date: December 17, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 84
Docket Number: 118241
Justia Opinion Summary: Video Gaming Technologies, Inc. (VGT), appeals from the district court's grant of Tulsa County Assessor's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. VGT brought a claim for relief from assessment of ad…
Date: December 17, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 81
Docket Number: SCBD-6553
Date: December 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 82
Date: December 3, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 77
Docket Number: 118450
Date: December 2, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 79
Docket Number: SCBD-2109
Date: December 2, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 78
Docket Number: SCBD-6874
Date: November 19, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 75
Docket Number: 117500
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs-appellees, Cloudi Mornings and Austin Miller (collectively Cloudi Mornings) filed a Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Injunctive Relief with the District Court of Tulsa County. In the petition, Cloudi…
Date: November 19, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 76
Docket Number: SCBD-6621
Date: November 18, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 74
Docket Number: SCBD-6859
Date: November 12, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 72
Docket Number: SCBD-3490
Date: November 12, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 73
Docket Number: SCBD-4483
Date: November 4, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 71
Docket Number: SCBD-6847
Date: October 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 69
Docket Number: 115995
Justia Opinion Summary: Hub Partners XXVI, Ltd. filed a foreclosure action against Thomas Barnett. The district court granted Hub a money and foreclosure judgment. Barnett filed for bankruptcy. During the bankruptcy, Barnett made court-approved…
Date: October 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 70
Docket Number: SCBD-6752
Date: October 22, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 68
Docket Numbers: 116808, Comp w/116954
Justia Opinion Summary: In a matter of first impression, the Oklahoma Supreme Court addressed whether a claim of intentional interference with a prospective economic business advantage required a showing of bad faith, and whether the immunity…
Date: October 21, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 67
Date: October 14, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 65
Docket Number: 118271
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Edward Shadid challenged Oklahoma City Ordinance No. 26,255 (Ordinance)1 which was passed by the City Council of Oklahoma City and signed by the Mayor on September 24, 2019. The Ordinance amended Article II of…
Date: October 7, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 63
Docket Number: SCBD-6676
Date: October 7, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 62
Docket Number: SCBD-6827
Date: October 1, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 61
Docket Number: 117190
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellee TAMKO Building Products, Inc. was a roof shingle manufacturer incorporated in Missouri. Plaintiffs-appellants were homeowners whose contractors installed Defendant's shingles on homeowner's roof.…
Date: October 1, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 60
Docket Number: SCBD-6732
Date: September 24, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 59
Docket Number: 115069
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a child, by and through his parents, brought a Governmental Tort Claims Act action alleging he was injured through the negligence of a school bus driver. The child was taken to a hospital emergency room, given…
Date: September 17, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 58
Docket Number: 116721
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff/Appellant was the vested remainderman of his father's life estate in the surface rights of land in Canadian County, Oklahoma (the "Property"). Defendant Cimarex Energy Company was the lessee of the Property's…
Date: September 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 57
Date: September 10, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 54
Docket Number: 116052
Justia Opinion Summary: Shalalah Saunders (Tenant) sued her landlord Marcella Smothers (Landlord) who left Tenant's hot water heater inoperable for more than a week. Tenant leased a house from Landlord where Tenant lived with her two children,…
Date: September 10, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 55
Docket Number: SCBD-6627
Date: September 10, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 56
Docket Number: SCBD-6815
Date: July 22, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 53
Date: June 25, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 52
Docket Number: 115362
Justia Opinion Summary: Lori and Heather, a same-sex couple, conceived a child ("J.L.") through artificial insemination and co-parented together as a family for eight years. J.L. recognized Lori as her "momma" or "Momma Lori." For the first…
Date: June 24, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 49
Date: June 24, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 50
Date: June 24, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 51
Date: June 19, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 48
Docket Number: 117962
Date: June 18, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 45
Docket Number: 112844
Justia Opinion Summary: The daughter of a deceased employee brought a wrongful death action against the her father’s employer for intentional tort, asserting that the employer was willful, wanton, and intentional in directing the…
Date: June 18, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 46
Docket Number: 117706
Justia Opinion Summary: A Mother filed a paternity petition seeking a determination of parentage, custody, visitation and child support. Attempts to serve alleged father were fraught with procedural errors. The trial court authorized service by…
Date: June 17, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 43
Docket Number: SCBD-6659
Date: June 17, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 44
Docket Number: SCBD-6660
Date: June 10, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 40
Docket Number: SCBD-6799
Date: June 10, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 41
Docket Number: SCBD-6800
Date: June 10, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 42
Docket Number: SCBD-6802
Date: May 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 39
Docket Number: 116600
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Amanda Cole was injured in an automobile accident and sued defendant Samantha Josey. Plaintiff failed to serve process on the defendant within 180 days. The trial court dismissed the suit without prejudice.…
Date: May 21, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 37
Docket Number: 116888
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Thomas Southon was employed by Oklahoma Tire Recyclers, LLC ("Employer"). In 2016, Southon sustained an injury while on the job and filed a claim for workers' compensation benefits. Employer fired Southon less…
Date: May 14, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 35
Docket Number: 114640
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 2875 (Union), and Robert Green (Green), sought certiorari relief from the Court of Civil Appeals' (COCA) opinion affirming the trial court's…
Date: May 14, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 36
Docket Number: SCBD-6717
Date: April 30, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 33
Docket Number: 116603
Justia Opinion Summary: After reviewing plaintiff's two Oklahoma constitutional challenges to House Bill 2684, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled restricting drug-induced abortions was unconstitutional. The 2014 measure outlawed “off-label” use…
Date: April 30, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 34
Docket Number: 117110
Justia Opinion Summary: A.A. (Child) was born in August 2014. Father was present in the hospital on the day of her birth. At that time, Child and Mother tested positive for phencyclidine (PCP). The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS)…
Date: April 30, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 32
Docket Number: SCBD-6672
Date: April 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 29
Date: April 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 30
Date: April 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 31
Date: April 23, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 28
Docket Number: 114301
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue was the constitutionality of an Oklahoma legislative enactment, 23 O.S. 2011 section 61.2, which that statutorily limited a plaintiff's recovery of noneconomic damages to $350,000 unless special findings were…
Date: April 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 21
Docket Number: 115453
Justia Opinion Summary: Medicine Park Telephone Company appeals the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's denial of its application for reimbursement from the Oklahoma Universal Services Fund for reasonable investments and expenses incurred in…
Date: April 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 22
Docket Number: 116193
Justia Opinion Summary: Medicine Park Telephone Company appeals the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's denial of its application for reimbursement from the Oklahoma Universal Services Fund for reasonable investments and expenses incurred in…
Date: April 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 23
Docket Number: 116194
Justia Opinion Summary: Medicine Park Telephone Company appeals the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's denial of its application for reimbursement from the Oklahoma Universal Services Fund for reasonable investments and expenses incurred in…
Date: April 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 24
Docket Number: 116214
Justia Opinion Summary: Dobson Telephone Company appealed the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's denial of its application for reimbursement from the Oklahoma Universal Services Fund for expenses incurred when it was ordered by the State…
Date: April 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 25
Docket Number: 116215
Justia Opinion Summary: Dobson Telephone Company appealed the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's denial of its application for reimbursement from the Oklahoma Universal Services Fund for expenses incurred when it was ordered by the State…
Date: April 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 26
Docket Number: 116421
Justia Opinion Summary: Dobson Telephone Company appealed the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's denial of its application for reimbursement from the Oklahoma Universal Services Fund for expenses incurred when it was ordered by the State…
Date: April 16, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 27
Docket Number: 116422
Justia Opinion Summary: Dobson Telephone Company appealed the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's denial of its application for reimbursement from the Oklahoma Universal Services Fund for expenses incurred when it was ordered by the State…
Date: April 9, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 20
Docket Number: 115002
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Angela Antini and Appellee Matthew Antini were parents to two children. In 2013, the parties were divorced under New York law. In the decree, the New York court awarded Appellant physical custody over the…
Date: April 8, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 18
Date: April 8, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 19
Date: March 25, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 13
Date: March 25, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 14
Docket Number: SCBD-6746
Date: March 12, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 11
Docket Number: 113560
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Emilee Mullendore was employed as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) with Mercy Hospital in Ardmore, Oklahoma. While working during her assigned hospital shift, Petitioner entered the fifth floor nutrition…
Date: March 12, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 12
Docket Number: SCBD-6618
Date: March 11, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 10
Date: March 4, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 8
Date: March 4, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 9
Docket Number: SCBD-6734
Date: February 26, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 6
Docket Number: 117413
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellee Jake Watkins was driving under the influence of alcohol and rear-ended a vehicle owned and operated by plaintiff-appellant Lee McIntosh. McIntosh's vehicle was damaged and he and the former…
Date: February 25, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 4
Date: January 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 3
Docket Number: 114553
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Oklahoma Schools Risk Management Trust (OSRMT) brought a declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration it was not liable for losses sustained by McAlester Public Schools resulting from a ruptured water pipe…
Date: January 29, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 2
Docket Number: 116391
Justia Opinion Summary: Kelley Kohler (Father) and Carolynn Chambers (Mother) were the biological parents of R.L.K., born April 17, 2012. Father received orders directing him to report for basic training and advanced individual training with…
Date: January 23, 2019
Citation: 2019 OK 1
Docket Number: SCBD-6633
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