Sommer v. Sommer
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
1Dissent
OPALA, Justice,
dissenting from the court’s decision to grant certiorari for review of the certified interlocutory order tendered in this cause.
¶1 The question before the court — certified for our review under the provisions of 12 O.S.1991 § 952(b)(3)1 — is whether contempt will lie for the collection of past due and unpaid support alimony that has been commuted to a judgment at law.
¶2 I recede from the court's decision to grant certiorari. The question certified presents a purely procedural issue. It does not affect (however minimally, tangentially or obliquely) any substantive rights of…
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- Peralta v. Heights Medical Center, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
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