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• Law & Principles

  Calls to change absentee voting process raise fraud concerns

  In response to COVID-19, a coalition of mostly left-leaning organizations is demanding that Oklahoma abandon a longstanding election-security safeguard.

  Ray Carter  |  April 27, 2020

• Judicial Reform, Law & Principles

  Put tort reform in the Oklahoma Constitution

  The Oklahoma Supreme Court conducts itself more as a rolling constitutional convention than an appellate court. The Legislature, and the people, should not tolerate the Court’s overreach.

  Benjamin Lepak  |  April 20, 2020

• Health Care, Law & Principles

  Noneconomic-damages fix must be constitutional, not statutory

  Any serious effort to reform a state’s civil justice system must include, as one of its core components, a solution to the problem of excessive claims for noneconomic damages, commonly understood as damages awarded for the pain and suffering experienced by the injured person seeking compensation.

  Andrew C. Spiropoulos  |  March 31, 2020

• Law & Principles

  Lawsuit reform narrowly survives in Senate vote

  Legislation that would allow Oklahoma voters to reinstate a longstanding lawsuit reform narrowly survived a Senate vote.

  Ray Carter  |  March 13, 2020

• Judicial Reform, Law & Principles

  Senators support judicial nominating transparency

  A measure to bring Oklahoma’s judicial nominating process in line with the transparency requirements of many other states has won strong approval in the Oklahoma Senate.

  Ray Carter  |  March 10, 2020

• Law & Principles

  Free speech argument prevails over ‘dark money’ complaint

  Protection of free speech prevailed over complaints of “dark money” in legislative debate as the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted to increase privacy protections for donors to nonprofit entities.

  Ray Carter  |  March 5, 2020

• Law & Principles

  Donor privacy protections gain bipartisan support

  The personal information of donors to nonprofit organizations would be protected under legislation that passed without opposition in the Oklahoma Senate.

  Ray Carter  |  March 3, 2020

• Law & Principles, Good Government

  Lawsuit-reform restoration advances

  Legislation to reinstate caps on noneconomic damages in certain lawsuits has gained approval from a Senate committee.

  Ray Carter  |  February 26, 2020

• Judicial Reform, Law & Principles, Good Government

  Lawmakers seek sunlight for Oklahoma judicial processes

  The operations of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the state’s Judicial Nominating Commission have long drawn criticism for excessive secrecy and lack of public transparency. Two bills that have cleared a Senate committee seek to address that problem.

  Ray Carter  |  February 25, 2020

• Judicial Reform, Law & Principles

  Mandatory bar membership raises free-speech concerns

  For decades, Oklahoma attorneys have not been allowed to practice law unless they join the Oklahoma Bar Association. Due to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding free speech and the right of association, a Senate committee has voted to end that mandate.

  Ray Carter  |  February 25, 2020

• Education, Law & Principles, Good Government

  GOP defectors side with unions

  Six Republican senators joined Democrats to defeat legislation that would require routine recertification elections for education unions, providing a victory for a teachers’ union that recently gave failing grades to most of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation.

  Ray Carter  |  February 25, 2020

• Law & Principles

  Donor privacy receives bipartisan support

  Legislation to protect Oklahomans’ privacy when citizens support political causes has received strong bipartisan support in a Senate committee.

  Ray Carter  |  February 19, 2020

• Law & Principles

  Voters may get chance to pass lawsuit reform

  To address problems created by an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling issued last year, state voters could be given the opportunity to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to cap noneconomic damages under legislation awaiting a vote this session.

  Ray Carter  |  February 7, 2020

• Higher Education

  Report highlights partisanship of Oklahoma professors

  According to popular stereotype, college professors are overwhelmingly liberal Democrats. New research shows that cliché is grounded in reality, including at several major Oklahoma universities.

  Ray Carter  |  January 30, 2020

• Law & Principles, Good Government

  Court arguments highlight redistricting plan’s potential impact

  Arguments before the Oklahoma Supreme Court highlighted how an initiative-petition proposal, which would strip the Oklahoma Legislature of redistricting power and place that authority with an outside commission, could play out in practice.

  Ray Carter  |  January 22, 2020

• Judicial Reform

  Critics denounce secrecy of Oklahoma judicial nominating process

  Following a judicial bribery scandal in the 1960s, Oklahoma adopted a “Missouri plan” system in which an outside commission selects judicial nominees and the governor is barred from considering any other applicants.

  Ray Carter  |  December 26, 2019

• Higher Education

  OU, Tulsa professors promote impeachment

  Seven Oklahoma law professors have signed a letter supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump even though they “take no position on whether the President committed a crime.”

  Ray Carter  |  December 9, 2019

• Education

  Ethics questions arise as law firm hosts school administrators’ golf event

  Ask the average teacher what his or her Wednesday looks like, and the answer will usually involve working in the classroom. In contrast, on a recent Wednesday, as many as 100 school administrators and board members spent their day in a very different fashion—playing golf.

  Ray Carter  |  November 11, 2019

• Health Care

  Medicaid expansion means more federal control

  Expanding Medicaid would greatly increase the federal government’s control over Oklahoma’s state budget. If Oklahoma chose to expand Medicaid it could increase the federal government’s share of the state budget to over 50 percent.

  Curtis Shelton  |  November 5, 2019

• Criminal Justice

  Oklahoma fees may be excessive, unconstitutional

  Oklahoma’s use of court fines and fees may be excessive and potentially unconstitutional, according to experts who spoke at a recent Senate meeting. But law enforcement officials stressed that repeal of those fees will require an offsetting increase in state appropriations.

  Ray Carter  |  October 23, 2019