Tibbetts v. Sight 'N Sound Appliance Centers, Inc.

OPALA, V.C.J.,

dissenting in part.

T1 The court reverses today the trial court's counsel-fee award to the plaintiffs and expressly overrules the statutory-law norm announced for this litigation in the earlier appeal of this cause (Tibbetts I).1 The overruled norm, which initially received a green light by this court's previous denial of cer-tiorari, upheld the unharmed plaintiff's right to press a private claim for the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act's [Act] 2 violation and to receive a counsel-fee award as an additional element of their recovery. By today's opinion the counsel fee is now…