# Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Grand River Dam Authority

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · May 21, 1986 · 720 P.2d 713

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9615859

## Case

- **Full name:** WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Appellant, v. GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY, Brown Boveri Corporation, a New York Corporation, and Benham-Holway Power Group, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** May 21, 1986
- **Citations:** 720 P.2d 713
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Opala
- **Judges:** Kauger, Doolin, Lavender, Wilson, Summers, Simms, Hodges, Hargrave, Opala
- **Cited by:** 47 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

OPALA, Justice,
with whom HODGES and HARGRAVE, JJ., join, concurring in judgment.
While I join the court’s dismissal of this appeal for mootness, I must recede from its gratuitous comments on the clouded behavior of functionaries whose past official actions escape today our adjudicative scrutiny. Judicial institutions do not remain true to their constitutionally-mandated posture of absolute detachment and neutrality when they cast themselves, however slightly, obliquely or inadvertently, in the role of enforcers. The responsibility for generating a community climate favorable to charging public officers with disciplinary, civil or criminal transgressions is not reposed in this court.

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