Federal Land Bank of Wichita v. Story

I respectfully dissent from the majority’s pronouncement that stare decisis dictates that 62 O.S.Supp.1986 §§ 492, 493 (the Act)1 is unconstitutional as violative of the *594contract clauses of the United States and Oklahoma Constitutions,2 and further viola-tive of Article II, § 6 of the Oklahoma Constitution.3

I do not believe the Act so closely parallels Section 1 of the Oklahoma Mortgage Moratorium Act found unconstitutional by this Court in State ex rel. Roth v. Waterfield, 167 Okl. 209, 29 P.2d 24 (1933).4 In Waterfield, while recognizing the existence of the national emergency of economic…