General Motors Corp. v. Oklahoma County Board of Equalization

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON REHEARING

We hereby supplement the opinion .of this Court of May 17, 1983 (54 O.B.J. 1351) as amended by Order of July 26, 1983 (54 O.B.J. 2068) by adding thereto the following:

A further review of Lemon v. Kurtzman, 411 U.S. 192, 93 S.Ct. 1463, 36 L.Ed.2d 151 (1973) impels the conclusion that the rule of Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 6 S.Ct. 1121, 30 L.Ed. 178 (1886) (that an unconstitutional statute “confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been…