Oklahoma Supreme Court Decisions 2013
Date: December 17, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 105
Docket Number: 108820
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner-Appellee, Jerry Butler pled guilty to two counts of "Sexual Abuse of a Minor Child" and received two five-year deferred sentences which ran consecutively. Sometime thereafter, Butler began registration under…
Date: December 17, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 110
Docket Number: SCBD-6010
Date: December 13, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 106
Docket Number: 111589
Date: December 10, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 104
Docket Number: 106845
Justia Opinion Summary: Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (H&P) appeals a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, who are a class of oil and gas royalty owners. The class alleged that the defendant breached contractual and fiduciary duties by allowing…
Date: December 9, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 102
Docket Number: 110323
Date: November 26, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 100
Docket Number: 107885
Justia Opinion Summary: Parents who adopted special needs children challenged decision by the Department of Human Services (DHS) to provide a lower assistance subsidy for the children than the assistance subsidy that would be paid if the…
Date: November 26, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 99
Docket Number: 109943
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue before the Supreme Court in this case was whether the three-day mailing rule of 12 O.S. sec. 2006(D) applied to defendants'-appellants' post-trial motions for costs and attorney fees filed in the trial court.…
Date: November 26, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 98
Docket Number: 110199
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Public Safety (DPS) revoked Plaintiff-Appellant Kevin Hedrick's driver's license for 180 days following his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicants. He filed an appeal…
Date: November 26, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 101
Docket Number: SCBD-5948
Date: November 19, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 97
Docket Number: 109883
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-Appellee Christopher Luster filed a Petition for Temporary and Permanent Injunction, Temporary Restraining Order, and Declaratory Relief to enjoin the State of Oklahoma ex rel., Department of Corrections, from…
Date: November 19, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 96
Docket Number: SCBD-5990
Date: November 12, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 95
Docket Number: 111562
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted certiorari in this case to address two issues: (1) whether a political-subdivision employer may be required to provide workers' compensation benefits to an off-duty employee injured while…
Date: November 4, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 94
Docket Number: SCBD-6053
Date: October 29, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 91
Docket Number: 109787
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-Appellant Enerlex, Inc. offered to purchase plaintiffs'-appellees' mineral interest. At the time, plaintiffs did not know that their Seminole County mineral interests were included in a pooling order or that…
Date: October 29, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 89
Docket Number: 109867
Date: October 29, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 93
Docket Number: 111939
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of the United States certified two questions of Oklahoma law to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The questions centered on whether H.B. No. 1970, Section 1, Chapter 216, O.S.L. 2011 prohibited: (1) the use…
Date: October 28, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 92
Docket Number: SCBD-5757
Date: October 28, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 90
Docket Number: SCBD-6052
Date: October 22, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 88
Docket Number: 110247
Justia Opinion Summary: An Oklahoma worker was killed at Employer's jobsite in Texas. The employer's insurer paid the worker's Widow death benefits provided by Texas workers' compensation law. The widow also recovered damages in a wrongful…
Date: October 22, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 87
Docket Number: 111529
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-Appellant Mastercraft Floor Covering, filed a lawsuit against Charlotte Flooring (CFI), a North Carolina corporation, in Oklahoma. Mastercraft alleged that CFI had hired it to install carpet in a North Carolina…
Date: October 15, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 85
Docket Number: 111018
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue on appeal to the Supreme Court centered on whether Lincoln Farm, L. L. C. breached a contract to sell potatoes to Farming Technology Corporation, and whether certain provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code…
Date: October 15, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 86
Docket Number: 111765
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue presented to the Supreme Court in this case was whether the district court erred in proceeding in the underlying foreclosure suit after the defendant filed a motion giving notice of the plaintiff corporation's…
Date: October 1, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 80
Docket Number: 108301
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant filed a Motion to Override Risk Level Classification under the Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA). The trial court ruled it did not have jurisdiction to grant the relief requested. The trial court record did…
Date: October 1, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 81
Docket Number: 109568
Date: October 1, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 79
Docket Number: 110750
Justia Opinion Summary: First American Cash Advance, owned by Valued Services, L.L.C. was robbed twice. The first robbery occurred on New Year's Eve 2008, and the second was in the spring of 2009. Respondent-Claimant Leslie Tregenza was the…
Date: October 1, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 84
Docket Number: 111226
Justia Opinion Summary: A student athlete asked for a permanent injunction against the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) to block it from enforcing its sanctions against the athlete following its determination that the…
Date: October 1, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 78
Docket Number: SCBD-5940
Date: September 26, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 82
Docket Number: SCBD-4216
Date: September 26, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 83
Docket Number: SCBD-4483
Date: September 24, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 76
Docket Number: 109044
Date: September 24, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 77
Docket Number: 109265
Justia Opinion Summary: Charles Sheffer, Jennifer Sheffer, and their minor son, J.S., were injured when their tractor trailer collided with a rental vehicle leased to William Garris and driven by David Billups, employees of Carolina Forge…
Date: September 24, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 74
Docket Number: 111789
Date: September 24, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 73
Docket Number: SCBD-5960
Date: September 17, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 71
Docket Number: 108797
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Joseph W. Hendricks challenged the constitutionality of the Sex Offenders Registration Act ("SORA") and its enforcement. Upon review, the Supreme Court held that applying SORA's requirements to sex offenders…
Date: September 17, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 72
Docket Number: 108819
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Michael Bollin challenged the constitutionality of the Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA) and its enforcement. Upon review, the Supreme Court found that when Bollin entered Oklahoma in June 2004, the law did…
Date: September 12, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 69
Docket Number: SCBD-5996
Date: July 2, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 66, 307 P.3d 342
Docket Number: 109306
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, respondent Adrian Melton suffered an on-the-job accident while working for his employer, Joe Brown Company, Inc. He was awarded eleven weeks of temporary total disability, granted permanent partial disability,…
Date: July 2, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 63, 304 P.3d 747
Docket Number: 110562
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Supreme Court accepted a certified question of state law from the Tenth Circuit federal appellate court. Two excess insurers for the Grand River Dame Authority (GRDA) had a dispute concerning the application…
Date: July 2, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 64, 307 P.3d 337
Docket Number: 111121
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Sedrick Courtney filed for post-conviction relief based on exonerating DNA evidence. He asked the district court to vacate his robbery conviction and to determine his actual innocence for the robbery in order…
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 52, 304 P.3d 742
Docket Number: 108940
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 54, 304 P.3d 743
Docket Number: 109216
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 56, 304 P.3d 744
Docket Number: 109995
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 57, 305 P.3d 1039
Docket Number: 110142
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 51, 304 P.3d 742
Docket Number: 110401
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 58, 304 P.3d 745
Docket Number: 110734
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 60, 304 P.3d 746
Docket Number: 110832
Date: June 27, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 61, 304 P.3d 746
Docket Number: 110835
Date: June 25, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 48, 306 P.3d 544
Docket Number: 109199
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs (the Sheffer family) were injured when their truck collided with a rental vehicle leased to and driven by employees of Carolina Forge Company, L.L.C. Plaintiffs sued Carolina Forge on theories of respondeat…
Date: June 25, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 43, 305 P.3d 1004
Docket Number: 109556
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-Appellee James Starkey, Sr. petitioned the trial court for a reduction of his level assignment. He was a registered sex offender whose registration period was retroactively increased by the Department of…
Date: June 25, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 44, 304 P.3d 738
Docket Number: 110066
Justia Opinion Summary: The biological father of H.M.W. and K.D.W. was in prison. He refused a writ of habeas corpus to attend the trial terminating his parental rights. When the case was called, Father's counsel requested a jury trial in…
Date: June 25, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 50, 304 P.3d 457
Docket Number: 110774
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants are a licensed bail bondsman and several insurance companies that issue bail bonds. They filed a complaint against defendant registered professional bail bondsman Curt Pletcher violated the Ten Bond Rule of…
Date: June 25, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 49
Docket Number: SCBD-5732
Date: June 25, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 42, 304 P.3d 453
Docket Number: SCBD-5987
Date: June 20, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 47
Date: June 20, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 45
Docket Number: SCBD-6016
Date: June 20, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 46
Docket Number: SCBD-6017
Date: June 18, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 39, 304 P.3d 735
Docket Number: 110773
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, a licensed bail bondsman and several insurance companies that issue bail bonds, sued for an injunction against Curtis Pletcher, a registered professional bail bondsman. They argued he violated the "Ten Bond…
Date: June 18, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 40, 303 P.3d 895
Docket Numbers: OBAD-1918, SCBD-6026
Date: June 11, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 38
Docket Number: SCBD-5939
Date: June 4, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 36, 302 P.3d 775
Docket Number: 109005
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Timothy Wall (Patient) filed a petition for medical negligence against Dr. John S. Marouk, D.O. (Physician). Wall alleged that the physician negligently cut the median nerve in his right arm during a carpal…
Date: June 4, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 37, 302 P.3d 789
Docket Number: 110270
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a wrongful death action against Defendant Cox Retirement Properties, alleging Richard Douglas died as a result of the facility's negligent care and treatment. Defendant moved to dismiss the case for…
Date: May 31, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 35, 303 P.3d 884
Docket Number: 111729
Justia Opinion Summary: The dispositive issue in this appeal was whether the trial judge erred in issuing a temporary injunction. The substantive issue in this appeal was whether the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Secondary School…
Date: May 28, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 34
Docket Number: 109786
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellant offered to purchase plaintiffs-appellees' mineral interest in Seminole County. At the time, plaintiffs did not know that they had inherited the mineral interest, that the mineral interest was included…
Date: May 6, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 32, 301 P.3d 416
Docket Number: SCBD-6000
Date: May 6, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 33
Docket Number: SCBD-6001
Date: April 23, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 30, 302 P.3d 769
Docket Number: 107506
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued his former spouse, seeking rescission and damages arising out of an allegedly fraudulent real estate sales agreement. The district court dismissed Plaintiff's lawsuit for failing to issue summons or file a…
Date: April 23, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 29
Docket Number: 111381
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer Protection Federation of Oklahoma, Inc. sought writs of prohibition and mandamus to disqualify a hearing officer in an administrative proceeding conducted by the Oklahoma Water…
Date: April 22, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 31
Date: April 18, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 28
Docket Number: SCBD-5982
Date: April 15, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 27
Docket Number: SCBD-5987
Date: April 9, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 25, 301 P.3d 413
Docket Number: 110997
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff-appellant sued the defendant-appellee for professional negligence, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment. The appellant was a party to a divorce and child custody litigation. The appellee, a…
Date: April 9, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 24, 301 P.3d 407
Docket Number: 111118
Justia Opinion Summary: W.R. Allison Enterprises, Inc. was a small business operated by a sole owner. Allison hired an employee in early 2009 and secured workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance from CompSource. Allison prepaid…
Date: April 4, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 23
Docket Number: SCBD-5895
Date: April 2, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 18, 300 P.3d 1188
Docket Number: 110394
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner-Claimant Nancy Bertrand injured her right foot when she slipped on a wet floor while employed as a child care worker for Respondent Laura Dester Center (Employer). She sought certiorari review of the opinion…
Date: April 2, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 20, 299 P.3d 477
Docket Number: 111141
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, Miami Business Services LLC (Miami), and Real Parties in Interest were involved in a joint venture. The law firm of Phillips Murrah, P.C. (Phillips) served as general counsel for Miami as well as Real Parties…
Date: April 2, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 19, 299 P.3d 493
Docket Number: SCBD-5853
Date: April 2, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 22, 299 P.3d 488
Docket Number: SCBD-5927
Date: April 2, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 21
Docket Numbers: OBAD-1952, SCBD-5981
Date: March 19, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 17, 299 P.3d 463
Docket Number: 110857
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-Appellant Brian C. Howard, M.D. received a knee replacement manufactured by Defendant Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc. The implant failed and had to be removed allegedly because it did not bond to Howard's bone. Howard…
Date: March 12, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 16, 297 P.3d 1248
Docket Number: SCBD-5917
Date: March 11, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 15
Docket Number: 5912
Date: March 5, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 14, 297 P.3d 378
Docket Number: 110283
Justia Opinion Summary: Frank George, a student at the University of Oklahoma, was charged by the University with violating five provisions of the University's student code. The Campus Disciplinary Board (CDB) found that he was guilty of…
Date: February 25, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 13
Date: February 25, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 12
Docket Number: OBAD-1950
Date: February 25, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 11
Docket Number: SCBD-5931
Date: February 12, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 9
Docket Number: 111037
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma certified questions of Oklahoma Law to the Supreme Court: (1) does the Okla. Const. art. 2, section 30 provide a private cause of action for excessive…
Date: February 7, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 10
Docket Number: SCBD-5964
Date: February 5, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 8, 301 P.3d 405
Docket Number: 109522
Date: January 22, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 6, 302 P.3d 1164
Docket Number: 109288
Justia Opinion Summary: In a dispute over insurance coverage between the plaintiff-appellee City of Choctaw, and its insurer defendant-appellant Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG), the trial court granted a motion for summary judgment…
Date: January 22, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 7, 295 P.3d 17
Docket Numbers: 5932, SCBD-5847
Date: January 15, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 2, 295 P.3d 1136
Docket Numbers: 109783, Consol. w/109752
Date: January 15, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 1, 295 P.3d 13
Docket Number: 110116
Date: January 14, 2013
Citations: 2013 OK 5, 295 P.3d 1135
Docket Number: SCBD-5827
Date: January 14, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 3
Docket Number: SCBD-5894
Date: January 14, 2013
Citation: 2013 OK 4
Docket Number: SCBD-5960
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