Cox v. Dawson

The court assumes original cognizance and holds that the incumbent commissioner, Bennie Cox [Cox], has title to position number 2 on the Oklahoma Mining Commission [Commission] for a seven-year term that expires January 1, 2002. The court’s pronouncement, which rests on its construction of 45 O.S.Supp.1995 § l,1 declares that by that section’s provisions all gubernatorial appointments to the Commission, to be made after October 1,1986, are intended to extend for a term of seven years.

*283I cannot accede to the court’s analysis of this controversy. Much too much is decided by today’s opinion. It…