by Benjamin Lepak | May 27, 2020 | Legal, Research
An Argument that Oklahoma’s Mayors Acted Unlawfully During COVID -19 Author Benjamin Lepak Abstract Ben Lepak lays out a legal argument for why the mayors of Oklahoma’s three largest cities acted unlawfully, exceeding their legal authority under state...
by Benjamin Lepak | May 6, 2020 | Blog
Once again, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has usurped the Legislature’s constitutional authority. This time, it has legislated new election rules, behind closed doors, on a compressed timetable, and without public input. All with an election looming in which the new...
by Benjamin Lepak | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog
According to the most widely cited model projecting the course of the coronavirus outbreak, today is supposed to be Oklahoma’s peak in daily deaths. Now is a good time to go back to the beginning of the Great Coronavirus Shutdown of 2020, review the goal of our...
by Benjamin Lepak | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog
I have referred often to the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s “lawmaking” or to justices acting like “legislators in black robes” as rhetorical devices intended to illustrate a point about judicial activism. I never imagined the Court would go so far as to actually begin...
by Benjamin Lepak | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog
Would we grant Devon Energy a government-enforced veto over whether its competitors should be issued drilling permits? Would we think it acceptable for the government to require new drug applicants to first obtain approval from Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson before...
