Oklahoma Supreme Court Decisions 2022
Date: December 19, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 100
Docket Number: SCBD-7354
Date: December 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 97
Docket Number: 116794
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue on appeal was whether the trial court abused its discretion by relying on an attorney's controverted affidavit to prove bad faith litigation conduct and whether the trial court had before it sufficient evidence…
Date: December 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 96
Docket Number: 118802
Justia Opinion Summary: Daniel Cole, after a favorable appellate ruling vacating judgment against him, filed this action including claims for malicious prosecution action against Bank of America, N.A. (Bank) and its legal counsel, Shapiro &…
Date: December 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 98
Docket Number: 120683
Date: November 22, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 95
Docket Number: 119053
Justia Opinion Summary: Four years after appellant-plaintiff Charlie Price filed a medical negligence/wrongful death action because his wife died from a stroke following surgery, the trial court dismissed the case for failure to prosecute.…
Date: November 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 94
Docket Number: SCBD-7361
Date: November 15, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 91
Docket Number: 116555
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs-appellants filed suit in this water rights case claiming that defendants-appellees interfered with their rights by damming a stream that flowed down to plaintiffs' property. After a jury verdict in favor of…
Date: November 15, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 90
Docket Number: 119675
Justia Opinion Summary: Raisa Pinto ("Mother") and Sailesh Arulkumar ("Father") were married in 2015. Both parents were trained physicians who attended medical school in India. In the summer of 2017, the couple moved to Oklahoma to allow Mother…
Date: November 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 93
Date: November 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 92
Docket Number: SCBD-7359
Date: November 8, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 87
Docket Number: SCBD-7235
Date: November 7, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 89
Date: November 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 86
Docket Number: 119794
Justia Opinion Summary: While divorce proceedings between plaintiff-appellee Arnold Johnson (Husband) and Jacquelyn Johnson (Wife) were pending, Wife changed the primary beneficiary of her individual retirement account (IRA) from Husband to her…
Date: October 25, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 85
Docket Number: 114175
Justia Opinion Summary: Michael Galier brought a negligence and products liability action against Defendant-Appellant Murco Wall Products, Inc., a Texas manufacturer. Galier alleged exposure to Murco's products caused him to contract…
Date: October 25, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 84
Docket Number: 119498
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee Andrea Milne dated Appellant Howard Hudson. During an argument, Hudson became violent with Milne. Milne sought a civil protection order from the McIntosh County district court, as the couple dated in in Eufaula,…
Date: October 18, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 83
Docket Number: 119837
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Supreme Court retained this case to resolve a question of first impression on whether Production Tax Credits (PTCs) used to finance the building of a wind farm were "property" which could be used to…
Date: October 11, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 80
Docket Numbers: 119, 429
Justia Opinion Summary: Pro Se respondent-appellant Anthony Hammer (Father) was a member of the Cherokee Nation. His parental rights to his children were terminated, and he sought to collaterally attack the termination order using: McGirt v.…
Date: October 10, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 81
Docket Number: SCBD-5703
Date: October 10, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 82
Docket Number: SCBD-7279
Date: October 4, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 79
Docket Number: 120034
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners, a school district and the school district's superintendent, filed suit o stop the Oklahoma State School Board from taking actions against the school district in the meetings of the Board. The Board continued…
Date: September 27, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 78
Docket Numbers: 117545, 117654
Justia Opinion Summary: After appellant Paul Laubach (father), and the appellee Maria Laubach (mother) divorced, the mother sought approval from the trial court to move across the state with their children. The father objected. Among the…
Date: September 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 76
Docket Number: 120646
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners were the proponents of Oklahoma Initiative Petition No. 434, State Question No. 820 ("SQ820"), which would legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana for recreational use. Petitioners asked the Oklahoma Supreme…
Date: September 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 73
Docket Number: 119840
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiffs/appellees, doctors, parents, and the Oklahoma State Medical Association, (collectively, doctors) brought a declaratory judgment action against the State of Oklahoma and the Governor seeking: (1) a…
Date: September 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 74
Date: September 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 75
Date: September 13, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 71
Docket Numbers: 119359, Comp. w/ 119413, 11970
Justia Opinion Summary: Cherokee Nation filed a declaratory judgment action seeking insurance coverage under the business interruption provision of a policy issued by a number of insurers for the economic losses it incurred when it temporarily…
Date: September 13, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 72
Docket Number: SCBD-7269
Date: June 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 68
Docket Numbers: SCBD-6874, 6884
Date: June 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 67
Docket Number: SCBD-6962
Date: June 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 69
Docket Number: SCBD-7165
Date: June 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 66
Docket Number: SCBD-7167
Date: June 27, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 70
Date: June 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 64
Docket Number: 118944
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Marie Yammine, as former wife and primary beneficiary of a two million dollar life insurance policy issued by Respondent ReliaStar Life Insurance Company to her former husband, Dr. Jean Bernard, appealed a…
Date: June 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 63
Docket Number: 119748
Justia Opinion Summary: The limited issue before the Oklahoma Supreme Court in this case was whether Appellants Steve and Kaci Snow (the Snows) had standing to assert a claim for inverse condemnation against the Town of Calumet (Town),…
Date: June 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 65
Docket Number: SCBD-7128
Date: June 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 61
Docket Number: SCBD-7267
Date: June 20, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 62
Docket Number: SCBD-7268
Date: June 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 56
Docket Numbers: Comp. w/118855, 116827
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant Jayen Patel, M.D. brought a tort claim for wrongful termination against defendant-appellee Tulsa Pain Consultants, Inc. (TPC). The trial court found Patel was not an at-will employee and entered a…
Date: June 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 60
Docket Number: 116989
Justia Opinion Summary: Crown Energy Company ("Crown") brought suit against Mid-Continent Casualty Company ("Mid-Continent") seeking declaratory judgment that two commercial general liability policies issued to Crown provided coverage for…
Date: June 14, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 57
Docket Number: 119049
Justia Opinion Summary: Husband filed a petition seeking appointment as guardian over his wife. The parties' daughter, Christy Hladik, objected and sought to have herself appointed. In July 2020, the trial court entered the Court's First…
Date: June 13, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 58
Date: June 13, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 59
Docket Number: SCBD-7058
Date: June 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 54
Docket Number: SCBD-7059
Date: June 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 52
Docket Number: SCBD-7259
Date: June 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 53
Docket Number: SCBD-7260
Date: June 6, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 55
Docket Number: SCBD-7261
Date: June 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 51
Docket Number: 118947
Justia Opinion Summary: An automobile driven by defendant Patrick McLaughlan, struck plaintiff Jerry Harwood while Harwood was leaving his work shift and crossing the street to an employer provided parking lot. After an unsuccessful attempt to…
Date: May 24, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 50
Docket Number: 118532
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed an action challenging rules adopted by the Oklahoma Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence at one of its meetings. Those rules were subsequently used by the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety in…
Date: May 24, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 47
Docket Number: 120274
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Development Finance Authority petitioned the Oklahoma Supreme Court to approve the issuance of ratepayer-backed bonds pursuant to the February 2021 Regulated Utility Consumer Protection Act, 74 O.S.2021, ch.…
Date: May 24, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 48
Docket Number: 120275
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Development Finance Authority petitioned the Oklahoma Supreme Court to approve the issuance of ratepayer-backed bonds pursuant to the February 2021 Regulated Utility Consumer Protection Act, 74 O.S.2021, ch.…
Date: May 24, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 49
Docket Number: 120276
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Development Finance Authority petitioned the Oklahoma Supreme Court to approve the issuance of ratepayer-backed bonds pursuant to the February 2021 Regulated Utility Consumer Protection Act, 74 O.S.2021, ch.…
Date: May 17, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 46
Docket Number: 118984
Justia Opinion Summary: The mother of a child injured while visiting a cemetery when a headstone fell sued the Town of Granite, the operator of the cemetery, for negligence. The district court granted Town's motion for summary judgment, holding…
Date: May 3, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 45
Docket Number: 119571
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant John Coates brought an action for breach of contract and breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing against defendant-appellee Progressive Direct Insurance Company. Plaintiff was injured after…
Date: May 3, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 40
Docket Number: 120039
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma certified two questions of law to the Oklahoma Supreme Court relating to the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act, and whether it applied to conduct…
Date: May 3, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 41
Docket Number: 120106
Justia Opinion Summary: In February 2021, the State of Oklahoma endured record cold temperatures. The severe cold weather resulted in a shortage of the natural gas supply and in turn extraordinary natural gas costs for regulated utilities…
Date: May 2, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 42
Date: May 2, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 43
Date: May 2, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 44
Date: April 19, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 35
Docket Number: 119270
Justia Opinion Summary: On July 9, 2020, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), determining that Congress never disestablished the Creek Reservation in eastern Oklahoma and,…
Date: April 19, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 39
Docket Number: 119607
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant, S. K. W. (W.) was convicted of five crimes relating to the manufacturing, trafficking, and possession of a controlled dangerous substance in Blaine and Canadian Counties, Oklahoma in 2001 and 2002.…
Date: April 19, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 37
Docket Numbers: 119927, Comp. w/119984
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner challenged the legal sufficiency of Oklahoma State Question No. 818, Initiative Petition No. 432. State Question 818, Petition No. 432 sought to create a new article to the Oklahoma Constitution, Article 31,…
Date: April 19, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 38
Docket Numbers: 119984, Comp. w/119927
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner challenged the legal sufficiency of Oklahoma State Question No. 818, Initiative Petition No. 432. State Question 818, Petition No. 432 sought to create a new article to the Oklahoma Constitution, Article 31,…
Date: April 19, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 36
Docket Number: SCBD-7166
Date: April 12, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 33
Docket Number: 119742
Date: April 12, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 34
Docket Number: SCBD-7085
Date: April 5, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 32
Docket Number: 116358
Justia Opinion Summary: Corporate taxpayer Raytheon Company's 2012 income tax return was due on March 15, 2013. Raytheon filed its return on September 27, 2013, after securing an authorized extension of the deadline. Raytheon later discovered…
Date: April 5, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 31
Docket Number: 119868
Date: March 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 30
Docket Number: 120170
Date: March 22, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 25
Docket Number: 117870
Justia Opinion Summary: The Oklahoma Supreme Court granted certiorari to review a certified interlocutory order dismissing Defendant-respondent OSU Medical Trust, doing business as OSU Medical Center (OSUMC), from a medical malpractice lawsuit.…
Date: March 22, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 26
Docket Number: 117912
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Magnum Energy, Inc. appealed a Board of Adjustment for the City of Norman (Board) decision denying Plaintiff's application for a variance from the City's business licensing requirement that oil and gas…
Date: March 22, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 29
Docket Number: 118339
Justia Opinion Summary: Procedurally, after an initial determination of child support and custody, Appellee Kirsten Friend (Mother) sought to modify the child support order and applied to find Appellant Brian Friend (Father) in contempt,…
Date: March 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 27
Docket Number: SCBD-7194
Date: March 21, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 28
Docket Number: SCBD-7212
Date: March 8, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 24
Docket Number: 117792
Justia Opinion Summary: The Okay Public Works Authority (OPWA) appealed a jury verdict in an inverse condemnation lawsuit. The jury found that a taking occurred when OPWA installed wastewater sewer lines in a mobile home community. The Court of…
Date: March 7, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 22
Docket Numbers: 119190, Comp w/119181 119337, Comp w/119181, 119337
Date: March 7, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 23
Docket Numbers: 1193, No. 119181 Comp w/119190, 119181 Comp w/119190, 119337, Comp w/119181, 119190
Date: March 7, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 20
Date: March 7, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 21
Date: February 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 19
Date: February 28, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 18
Docket Number: SCBD-7060
Date: February 22, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 17
Date: February 15, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 16
Docket Number: 119924
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Jeffrey Booth, then an installation service manager for Appellee Home Depot, U.S.A., noticed at a job site that a customer was being charged for window wraps that were not needed. Booth phoned and emailed his…
Date: February 8, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 14
Docket Number: 119786
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs-appellees Ronda Owens, Darryl Hubbard, Selena Freymiller, Shanika Crowley, Valerie Killman, Michael Lee Pitts, Ebony Warrior, John Ball, Michelle Bullock, Logan Bellew, Sondia Bell, Tumeeka Baker, and Jay Reid…
Date: February 8, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 15
Docket Numbers: 6925, SCBD-6925, Consol. w/69945
Date: February 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 10
Docket Numbers: 118986, Comp. w/119218
Justia Opinion Summary: S.A.H. was born out-of-wedlock on February 3, 2009. S.A.H.'s mother (Mother) had sole legal custody of S.A.H. until Mother could no longer care for the minor child due to a terminal illness. In Case No. 118,986,…
Date: February 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 11
Docket Numbers: 119051, Consol. w/119196
Justia Opinion Summary: Li Meng ("Tenant") leased a commercial property from the Plaintiffs, Mohammad Rahimi and Tahereh Dinpajooh ("Landlords") in August, 2019 for the sole purpose of operating a massage business for a two year term. The…
Date: February 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 13
Docket Number: SCBD-7041
Date: February 1, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 12
Docket Number: SCBD-7126
Date: January 25, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 9
Docket Number: 118503
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-respondent Keely Rickard purchased the subject residential real property from the Coulimore Family Living Trust, U/A/D March 6, 2014 ("the Coulimore Trust"). Rickard later sued Defendants-petitioners Jonathan…
Date: January 24, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 8
Docket Number: SCBD-6981
Date: January 18, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 7
Docket Number: SCBD-7194
Date: January 11, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 4
Docket Number: 119309
Justia Opinion Summary: Ikia Pope and Brandi Powell were in a motor vehicle collision. Pope left the scene of the collision. Powell alleged Pope drove a vehicle owned by third parties who gave permission for Pope to drive the vehicle.…
Date: January 11, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 1
Docket Number: SCBD-7035
Date: January 10, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 2
Docket Number: SCBD-6907
Date: January 10, 2022
Citation: 2022 OK 3
Docket Number: SCBD-7183
