Legal Opinion
McCormack v. Town of Granite
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided October 10, 1995No. 81813PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMERS, Justice:
Plaintiffs were three of the five elected trustees of the Town of Granite’s Board of Trustees. They voted to fire the police chief, whereupon two things happened: (1) the discharged chief sued them in federal court for violation of his civil rights, and (2) a grand jury was empaneled in Greer County which returned an indictment for ouster of the three, based on the firing incident.
Plaintiffs were in all respects vindicated. A federal judge dismissed the civil rights suit (plus a pendent state-law based claim for wrongful termination), and the judge in Greer County dismissed…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Johnson v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1983
- Sharpe v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar AssociationCourt on the Judiciary of Oklahoma · 1968
- Hale v. Board of County Commissioners of Seminole CountySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1979
- Independent School District No. JI-69 v. Independent School District No. D-45Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1961
- State Ex Rel. Grand Jury of McCurtain County v. PateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1977
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Kinzy v. State ex rel. Oklahoma Firefighters Pension & Retirement SystemSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2001
- Strong v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Police Pension & Retirement BoardSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2005
- State v. PriceSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2012
- Groseclose v. City of TulsaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1998
- McCormack v. Town of GraniteSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1996
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