# Fent v. Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · July 8, 1999 · 984 P.2d 200

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9793105

## Case

- **Full name:** Jerry R. FENT and Margaret B. Fent, Husband and Wife, as Resident Taxpayers and Voters of the State of Oklahoma, Petitioners, v. OKLAHOMA CAPITOL IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY, a Body Corporate and Politic of the Oklahoma of Oklahoma
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** July 8, 1999
- **Citations:** 984 P.2d 200; 1999 OK 64; 1999 WL 456951
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Opala
- **Judges:** Ala, Summers, Hargrave, Hodges, Simms, Kauger, Watt, Lavender, Opala, Wilson
- **Cited by:** 60 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

OPALA, J.,
receding from the court’s opinion and joining the dissenting view by LAVENDER, J.
¶ 1 I recede from today’s pronouncement for the reasons expressed in Application of Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority (Opala, J., dissenting) 1 and join the dissenting view by Lavender, J.
*216 ORDER
¶ 1 Original jurisdiction is assumed as to the issue of disqualification of all of the Justices of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, with other merit issues to be subsequently considered. The interest of the individual Justices in a Capitol Improvement Bond Issue, including bonds for new judicial facilities, is too speculative and insubstantial to constitute an interest in the outcome of this cause, involving the legality of that bond issue, to require disqualification of any or all of the Justices. Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands v. Kaipat, 94 F.3d 574 (9th Cir.1996).
¶ 2 DONE BY THE ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 19th DAY OF April, 1999.
¶ 3 HARGRAVE, V.C.J., HODGES, LAVENDER, SIMMS, WILSON, KAUGER and WATT, JJ. — concur.
. 1998 OK 25 , 958 P.2d 759, 779-82 , cert. denied - U.S. -, 119 S.Ct. 174 , 142 L.Ed.2d 142 (1998).

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