Opinion

Ethics Commission v. Keating

  • 958 P.2d 1250
  • 1998 OK 36
  • 1998 WL 241848
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Aug 20, 1998
Status
Published
Author
Wilson
On the bench
Summers, Hodges, Lavender, Hargrave, Watt, Kauger, Wilson, Simms, Opala
Cited by
30 cases
Authority
More cited than 7.0%

"[G]overnment transportation to a destination (private residence) for a private purpose (to go home at the end of the work-day) does in fact fulfill a public purpose, because the employee responds to emergencies from the residence."

How later courts described this case

  • "[G]overnment transportation to a destination (private residence) for a private purpose (to go home at the end of the work-day) does in fact fulfill a public purpose, because the employee responds to emergencies from the residence."

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ALMA WILSON,

Justice, with whom OPALA, Justice, joins, dissenting in part:

*1265 ¶ 1 Ethics Commission v. Cullison 1 determined that the Ethics Commission has primary legislative power to regulate ethical conduct of state officials. Cullison struck down 37 statutes because the Legislature encroached upon the legislative power of the Ethics Commission. The same pen - that wrote Cullison, today, declares that the constitutionally-vested legislative power of the Ethics Commission is restricted by a 25-year old statute. 2 The majority opinion is inconsistent with Ethics Commission v. Cullison. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent in part.

. 1993 OK 37 , 850 P.2d 1069 . Cullison interpreted Art. 29 that was added to the Oklahoma Constitution at an election held on September 18, 1990.

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