Legal Opinion

Gaylord Entertainment Co. v. Thompson

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided April 14, 1998No. 88925, 88935PublishedCited by 110 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OP ALA, Justice.

¶ 1 The dispositive issue tendered by the two consolidated original proceedings for a writ of prohibition is whether the district court action against the petitioners, now pending before the respondent judge, is dismissible for want of actionable quality. We draw from three different sources of law1 to *135conclude that (a) when measured by the applicable Conley v. Gibson2 standard, the plaintiffs (corespondents herein) can muster no set of facts in support of their quest for relief against the petitioners under any legal theory and (b) the writs should issue to arrest further…

2Cases cited139 opinions

  1. Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  4. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
  5. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972

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3Cited by110 opinions

  1. Tuffy's, Inc. v. City of Oklahoma CitySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2009
  2. Escue v. Northern Oklahoma CollegeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2006
  3. Computer Publications, Inc. v. WeltonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2002
  4. Racher v. Westlake Nursing Home Ltd. PartnershipCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2017
  5. Champagne Metals v. Ken-Mac Metals, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2006

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