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 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 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 Byron Schlomach | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog
Could the economic shutdown cure for coronavirus be worse than the disease? It appears more likely every day. As an undergraduate at Texas A&M, I was required to read an essay by Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome and a bona fide genius. I recall...
by Benjamin Lepak | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog
“The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in...
