BELLMON v. BARKER

No. 71318.

760 P.2d 813 (1988)

Henry BELLMON, Governor, Jerry Smith, Minority Leader of the Oklahoma Senate, and Walter Hill, Minority Leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Petitioners, v. Jim BARKER, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Robert S. Kerr, III, Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate, Robert V. Cullison, President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma Senate, Lance Ward, Secretary of the Oklahoma Senate, and Larry Warden, Chief Clerk of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Dissenting Opinion of July 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Tevington, et al., Oklahoma City, Gen. Counsel to Governor.

Suzanne Broadbent, Oklahoma City, Asst. Gen. Counsel to Governor.

Joe Herton, for Walter E. Hill.

Gary W. Gardenhire, Oklahoma City, for Jerry Smith.

Neal Leader, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.


Dissenting Opinion of Justice Opala July 12, 1988.

ORDER

Upon consideration of petitioners' Application to Assume Original Jurisdiction and Petition for Writs of Prohibition, together with briefs and oral argument, THE COURT FINDS:

1) On June 30, 1988, at 9:00 a.m., the Oklahoma Legislature commenced its eighty-ninth day of the Second Regular Session of the Forty-First Legislature and was continuously and actually engaged in transacting legislative...

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