GAYLORD ENTERTAINMENT CO. v. THOMPSON

Nos. 88925, 88935.

958 P.2d 128 (1998)

1998 OK 30

GAYLORD ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, d/b/a The Oklahoma Publishing Co., The Oklahoma Publishing Company, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Donald D. THOMPSON, Judge of the District Court of Creek County, Twenty-Fourth Judicial District, Respondent, and Jessie Huff Durham, an individual, and Beau Williams, an individual, Real Parties in Interest. WORLD PUBLISHING CO., an Oklahoma corporation, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Donald D. THOMPSON, Judge of the District Court of Creek County, Twenty-Fourth Judicial District, Respondent, and Jessie Huff Durham, an individual, and Beau Williams, an individual, Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied June 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B.J. Rothbaum, Von Russell Creek, Linn & Neville, Oklahoma City, for Petitioners Gaylord Entertainment Company and The Oklahoma Publishing Company in No. 88925.

J. Schaad Titus, Boone, Smith, Davis, Hurst & Dickman, Tulsa, for Petitioner World Publishing Co. in No. 88935.

W.C. Sellers, W.C. "Bill" Sellers, Inc., Sapulpa, and W.C. Sellers, Jr., Bill Sellers, Sapulpa, for Real Parties in Interest in Nos. 88925 and 88935.


OPALA, Justice.

¶ 1 The dispositive issue tendered by the two consolidated original proceedings for a writ of prohibition is whether the district court action against the petitioners, now pending before the respondent judge, is dismissible for want of actionable quality. We draw from three different sources of law1 to conclude that (a) when measured...

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