by Mike Davis | Nov 13, 2019 | Research
New Car Dealer Licensing in Oklahoma Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper briefly describes Oklahoma’s new car dealer licensing law and concludes that it affords no protections to Oklahoma’s new car consuming public. In fact, the law disfavors Oklahomans...
by Mike Davis | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog
Imagine you wanted to open a restaurant. Imagine you were allowed to cook the food yourself, but you were prohibited by law from serving it to customers yourself; instead, you were forced to hire a waiter. Next, imagine that the waiter wasn’t pulling his weight, but...
by Mike Davis | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog
When is election day? Most people probably assume it’s the first Tuesday in November. That makes sense, since that’s the date for statewide elections, and, in even numbered years, federal elections as well. Would it surprise you to learn that there is an election...
by Benjamin Lepak | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog
Oklahoma’s Attorney General and trial courts appear to now be in the business of taxing industries and appropriating funds to state agencies. These are powers that the Oklahoma Constitution explicitly grants to the legislature. They are certainly not given to the...
by Benjamin Lepak | Sep 4, 2019 | Research
Legislators in Black Robes: Unelected Lawmaking by the Oklahoma Supreme Court Author Benjamin Lepak Abstract This paper criticizes the Oklahoma Supreme Court for arbitrary rulings that are designed to obtain policy outcomes desired by the Court rather than...