by Byron Schlomach | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog
Governor Stitt has declared that some businesses can open on Friday. By May 1, all enterprises in the state will be able to operate more or less normally. Eventually, at some unspecified date, Oklahoma will be fully operating again. But the question remains, and must...
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 Byron Schlomach | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
More people will die as a result of COVID-19 because we closed the schools than would have if we’d kept the schools open or if we’d brought the kids back to school in summer. That is part of the message from Knut M. Wittkowski, who headed the Department of...
by Byron Schlomach | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog
At the time of this writing, Governor Stitt remains in a budgetary impasse with the legislature over completing the current fiscal year, which ends in June. By the time this is posted, in all likelihood, he’ll have signed the spending bills that access the rainy day...
by Mike Davis | Apr 7, 2020 | Research
Author Mike R. Davis Abstract Mike Davis analyzes Oklahoma’s emergency powers statutes to determine whether the governor or a mayor has the authority to order businesses to close during an epidemic. Full text PDF Full Text HTML A Legal Primer on Oklahoma’s...
