by Mike Davis | Jul 21, 2021 | Research
Rethinking Emergency Powers in Oklahoma Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper analyzes Oklahoma’s gubernatorial emergency powers and finds them lacking. It recommends enacting a tight limit on the amount of time an emergency can be declared to exist, limiting local...
by Mike Davis | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog
Oklahoma lawyers – at least those who make a living doing lawyerly things – are currently required to join the Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA). However, recent developments in legal challenges to various mandatory bar associations are likely to shake up...
by Mike Davis | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog
What happens to a state when businesses don’t have some assurance that their good-faith efforts to comply with laws, regulations, and best practices will protect them from massive civil liability? Well, what would you do? If you thought that merely becoming unpopular...
by Mike Davis | Mar 29, 2021 | Legal, Research
Abating Economic Disaster: A Call to Reform Oklahoma’s Public Nuisance Statute Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper examines the history of public nuisance law and how Oklahoma’s public nuisance statute was misapplied in Oklahoma v. Johnson and Johnson. It lists the...
by Mike Davis | Nov 18, 2020 | Research
America’s Legal Tradition of Allowing Risk-Taking,Even in a Pandemic Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper demonstrates how many local governments’ restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 fail to fit into the long American legal tradition of allowing individuals...
