Oklahoma Special Session on Tort Reform

On June 4, 2013, in Douglas v. Cox Retirement, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down all statutes that were passed in 2009 as the Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Act (CLRA), finding the statutes violated the “single subject” rule of the Oklahoma Constitution. The single-subject rule means that a statute may only address one issue. In the decision, the court held that the enactment of…

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