Opinion

Fent v. Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority

  • 984 P.2d 200
  • 1999 OK 64
  • 1999 WL 456951
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Jul 8, 1999
Status
Published
Author
Ala
On the bench
Ala, Summers, Hargrave, Hodges, Simms, Kauger, Watt, Lavender, Opala, Wilson
Cited by
60 cases

financing scheme that involved “[a]t most . . . appropriation-risk or moral obligation bonds” did not create constitutional debt because there was “no legally enforceable contract between [the Legislature] and either [the Capitol Improvement Authority], the various agencies, etc. or the citizens of Oklahoma to make the anticipated appropriations necessary to retire the bonds”

How later courts described this case

  • financing scheme that involved “[a]t most . . . appropriation-risk or moral obligation bonds” did not create constitutional debt because there was “no legally enforceable contract between [the Legislature] and either [the Capitol Improvement Authority], the various agencies, etc. or the citizens of Oklahoma to make the anticipated appropriations necessary to retire the bonds”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

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