PAUL v. HUNTER

PAUL v. HUNTER
2017 OK 25
Case Number: 115322
Decided: 03/27/2017
THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

NOTICE: THIS OPINION HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION. UNTIL RELEASED, IT IS SUBJECT TO REVISION OR WITHDRAWAL.

CHIP PAUL and PHILIP WINTERS, OKLAHOMANS FOR HEALTH, Petitioners,
v.
THE HONORABLE MIKE HUNTER, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF OKLAHOMA, Respondent.

¶0 ORDER

¶1 Petitioners filed a ballot title appeal pursuant to 34 O.S.Supp. 2015 §§ 9, 10, and requested the Court to assume original jurisdiction, review the ballot title substituted by the Attorney General, strike that title, and replace it with the original proposed ballot title for State Question No. 788, Initiative Petition No. 412.

¶2 Original jurisdiction is assumed. Okla. Const. Art. 7 § 4. The ballot title substituted by the Attorney General is hereby stricken. The original proposed ballot title is approved by the Court and shall be the ballot title for State Question No. 788, Initiative Petition No. 412. 34 O.S.Supp. 2015 §§ 9, 10.

¶3 DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 27th DAY OF MARCH, 2017.

/S/CHIEF JUSTICE

¶4 CONCUR: COMBS, C.J.; GURICH, V.C.J.; and KAUGER, WATT, EDMONDSON, COLBERT, and REIF, JJ.

¶5 DISSENT: WINCHESTER, J.

¶6 RECUSED: WYRICK, J.