State ex rel. Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Burris

The underlying district court action seeks damages for a personal injury to real party in interest, Edith Mae Arnold, resulting from a fall and tripping over a curb in the parking lot at niglit while leaving the Jess Dunn Correctional Center after visiting her son, who is incarcerated at that center. The defendant, State of Oklahoma, sought summary judgment which was denied by the respondent judge. The State of Oklahoma brings this original action seeking extraordinary relief in the form of a writ prohibiting respondent judge from proceeding further in that district court action.

The parking…