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Oklahoma Didn’t Know It Was Lost!

01 Saturday Jan 2022

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Health Law, Medical Marijuana

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Medical Marijuana, Oklahoma

The New York Times Has Discovered Oklahoma! by Jeremy Telman, ContractsProf Blog

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2021/12/the-new-york-times-has-discovered-oklahoma.html

Associate Law Professor Jeremy Telman, Oklahoma City University Law School, provided the shocking news.  Oklahomans are growing, selling, and consuming marijuana. Oh my goodness sakes alive!

Medical marijuana became legal in Oklahoma three years ago. Just drive around. You cannot throw a rock without hitting a marijuana dispensary in Oklahoma.  I know – I live here.  

Although Oklahoma is predominantly a red state, medical marijuana sends tax money to state coffers. Can you say cha-ching? 

Thank you, Professor Telman! Interesting read! -CCE

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court Sanctions Attorney for Computer Illiteracy.

31 Thursday Mar 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Attorney Discipline, Bankruptcy Court Rules, Bankruptcy Law, Diligence, Legal Ethics, Oklahoma Supreme Court, Sanctions, Technology

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Attorney Discipline, Bankruptcy Court, Computer LIteracy, Legal Profession Blog, Mike Frisch, Oklahoma, William P. Statsky

Oklahoma Accepts Computer Illiteracy As Mitigation: Censure Imposed, by Mike Frisch, Legal Profession Blog (with hat tip to William P. Statsky!)

http://bit.ly/1MFG9S8

No doubt you have seen posts here and elsewhere that discuss whether computer competency is now required due diligence for attorneys. The Oklahoma Supreme Court bench-slammed an older attorney for his lack of computer literacy. But, before you make up your mind, read the dissent. -CCE

 

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Civil Appeals.

12 Saturday Apr 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Appellate Law, Designations of the Record, Oklahoma Civil Appellate Procedure, Oklahoma Supreme Court

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Civil Appeals, Lori Spencer, Oklahoma, P., The Haubrich Law Firm, The Record

Civil Appeals in Oklahoma, by Lori Spencer, The Haubrich Law Firm, P.C.

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Oklahoma’s 2014 Official Citation Change – What Does it Mean?

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Citations, Legal Writing, Oklahoma Civil Appellate Procedure, Oklahoma Supreme Court, Public Domain Citations, Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

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Citing Legally Blog, National Reporter System, Neutral Citation, Oklahoma, Peter Martin, Public Domain Citation, Thomson Reuters, Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

Oklahoma Makes It Official (But What Does That Signify?), by Peter Martin, Citing Legally Blog

http://citeblog.access-to-law.com/?p=107

For over 16 years Oklahoma appellate courts have attached non-proprietary, print-independent citation data to their decisions at the time of release, placed those decisions online at a public site, and required lawyers to cite state precedent using this contemporary system. Moreover, setting Oklahoma apart from other neutral citation pioneers, the judiciary staff applied neutral citations retrospectively to all prior decisions rendered during the print era, placed copies of them online as well, and encouraged but did not require that they also be cited by the new system.  Until this year, however, the print reports of the National Reporter System remained the “official” version of Oklahoma decisions.  As of January 1, 2014, sixty years after the Oklahoma Supreme Court designated the West Publishing Company as the ‘official publisher’ of its decisions, it revoked that designation. 

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Got Your Gun? OSBI Launched Self-Defense Act License Online Application System.

16 Sunday Feb 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Constitution, Second Amendment

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eGovernment, Gun Control, Handgun License, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Online Gun License, OSBI, Second Amendment, Self-Defense Act

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Offers Online Gun License Application, OK.gov

http://tinyurl.com/m86brv3

Applying for an Oklahoma gun license just got easier. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) has launched the Self-Defense Act (SDA) License Online Application system. The system allows users to submit applications to apply for or renew a handgun license. The online application can be accessed on the OSBI website at http://www.ok.gov/osbi.

Last year, more than 60,000 Oklahomans applied for a gun license. To deal with the influx of applications, OSBI hired more temporary and full-time staff for the unit and added a night shift. The online application will expedite and streamline the process.

The online service is a product of a partnership between the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and OK.gov, Oklahoma’s official website managed by the eGovernment firm, NIC Inc. (Nasdaq: EGOV). The actual launch date of the online application system was January 14, 2014. . . .

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Federal Government Is On Board The Eight Pending Lawsuits Against Health Management Associates Inc.

03 Monday Feb 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in False Claims Act, Fraud, Health Law

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Alabama, Arkansas, Emergency Room, ER, False Claims Act, Federal Health Care, Florida, Fraud, Gary Newsome, Georgia, Health Management Associates Inc., HMA, Hospitals, Inpatient Admissions, Kentucky, Kickbacks, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina Supreme Court, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Supreme Court, Washington, West Virginia

Government Intervenes in Lawsuits Against Health Management Associates Inc. Hospital Chain Alleging Unnecessary Inpatient Admissions and Payment of Kickbacks, by Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/January/14-civ-037.html

The government has intervened in eight False Claims Act lawsuits against Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA) alleging that HMA billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary inpatient admissions from the emergency departments at HMA hospitals and paid remuneration to physicians in exchange for patient referrals, the Justice Department announced today.  The government also has joined in the allegations in one of these lawsuits that Gary Newsome, HMA’s former CEO, directed HMA’s corporate practice of pressuring emergency department physicians and hospital administrators to raise inpatient admission rates, regardless of medical necessity.  HMA operates 71 hospitals in 15 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and West Virginia.

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The lawsuits allege that HMA’s corporate officers, at the direction of Newsome, exerted significant pressure on doctors in the emergency department to admit patients who could have been placed in observation, treated as outpatients or discharged, and that this resulted in the submission of inflated or false claims to federal health care programs.  One lawsuit also alleges that patients were improperly admitted for scheduled surgical procedures that should have been done on an outpatient basis.  The complaints further allege that HMA paid kickbacks, either in the form of bonuses or awarded contracts, to physician groups staffing HMA emergency rooms to induce the physicians to admit patients unnecessarily. . . .  [Emphasis added.]

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Federal Court Rules Oklahoma Same Sex Marriage is Constitutional.

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection

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Carl Tobias, Defense of Marriage Act, Mary Fallin, Oklahoma, Same Sex Marriage, U.S. District Court Judge Terence Kern, U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby, U.S. Supreme Court, United States v. Windsor, Utah

Federal Judge: Oklahoma Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional, by Greg Botelho, CNN

 http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/14/justice/oklahoma-gay-marriage/

Oklahoma’s Governor, Mary Fallin, expressed her disappointment with the federal court’s ruling even though the Court’s decision was not a complete victory for same sex couples. -CCE

 A federal judge ruled Tuesday that an Oklahoma law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples violates the U.S. Constitution, giving yet another victory to same-sex marriage supporters.

U.S. District Court Judge Terence Kern said the court would not immediately enforce this ruling — therefore not opening the doors right away to marriages of gay and lesbian couples in Oklahoma — pending appeals. Still, he delivered a clear opinion on how the voter-approved Oklahoma state constitutional amendment relates to the U.S. Constitution.

‘The Court holds that Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,’ the judge wrote, saying that protection ‘is at the very heart of our legal system.’

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Dave Roberts’ Last Article with Rex Travis – Oklahoma’s New Administrative Workers’ Compensation System.

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Employment Law, Workers' Compensation

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Administrative Workers' Compensation Act, Dave Roberts, Oklahoma, Rex Travis, Travis Law Office

The New Administrative Workers’ Compensation System, by Dave Roberts, posted by Rex Travis, Travis Law Office

http://tinyurl.com/kx55ywl

Mr. Travis and his friend, David Roberts, were working on this article when Mr. Roberts passed away. The article appears after the excerpt of Mr. Roberts’ obituary, which is quoted here:

About the author: At the time of his death, Dave had tried over 100 civil cases in 21 various Oklahoma State District Courts. He also tried over 25 civil cases in various Federal District Courts, and tried thousands of cases at the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court. Dave was past chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Oklahoma Bar Association and also served as Chairman of the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners. Dave authored several articles for the Oklahoma Bar Journal and the American Bar Association Journal. At the time of his death, he was one of only nine life-sustaining members of Scribes, the pre-eminent National Legal Writers’ Society. Excerpted from Dave Roberts’ obituary.

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Oklahoma Governor and Politicians Squash Latest Attempt For Justice Reform.

08 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Criminal Law, Government, Justice Reform, Open Records Act

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Big Brothers Big Sisters, Clifton Adcock, Incarceration, Justice Reform, Justice Reinvestment Initiative, Mary Fallin, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Ethics Commission, Oklahoma Watch, Open Records Act, Prison, Private Prison Companies

Special Report: How Actions by Governor’s Staff Led to Weakened State Justice Reforms, by Clifton Adcock, Oklahoma Watch

http://tinyurl.com/mp9xr7q

Oklahoma’s incarceration rate is one of the highest in the nation. Oklahoma incarcerates the most women in the United States and is the third highest state in incarceration of men. According to Oklahoma’s Big Brothers Big Sisters, which recently lost its federal funding to its Mentoring Children of Prisoner’s Program, 27,000 children in Oklahoma have one or both parents in prison today. The concern over Oklahoma’s increasing prison population and ripple effect on its citizens makes this latest lost opportunity even more discouraging. -CCE

Note: Oklahoma Watch is offering this detailed, 4,500-word story on events that led up to changes in the state’s most significant justice-reform effort in recent history. With Oklahoma having some of the nation’s highest incarceration rates, hopes soared in 2012 among leaders and residents when the Justice Reinvestment Initiative was signed into law. Others viewed it skeptically. Newly released records reveal what happened in state government that led to a weakening of the original plan for implementing the reforms.


Behind-the-scenes moves by Gov. Mary Fallin’s senior staff members helped lead to a severe weakening of a program designed to cut the state’s high incarceration rates and save taxpayers more than $200 million over a decade, according to interviews and records obtained by Oklahoma Watch.

The efforts by the governor’s staff, assisted by legislative leaders, to take control of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative took place during periods when staff members met with representatives of private prison companies, which stood to gain or lose depending on how the initiative was implemented, emails and logs of visitors to Fallin’s offices show.

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U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Appeal in Case That Would Require An Ultrasound Before An Abortion in Oklahoma.

19 Tuesday Nov 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Abortion, Appellate Law, United States Supreme Court

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Abortion, Appellate Law, Oklahoma, U.S. Supreme Court, Ultrasound

Supreme Court justices dismiss another Oklahoma law on abortion, by Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/12/justice/supreme-court-oklahoma-abortion/

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