City of Oklahoma City v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Department of Labor

SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON REHEARING

The Attorney General [AG] asks on rehearing that we clarify the retrospective contours of our October 10, 1995 pronouncement, which condemns as unconstitutional the provisions of 40 O.S.1991 §§ 196.1-196.14, the so-called Little Davis-Bacon (or Prevailing Wage) Act. We are urged that the court’s opinion should be given a limited backward reach1 because “hundreds” of laborers’ prevailing-wage claims and “numerous” contracts will be affected by our sentence of nullity. The AG argues that if the declaration of a statute’s invalidity has not been clearly…