High Court Refuses Jurisdiction on Constitutional Challenge to "Option"

An effort to use an express-lane path to getting the “Oklahoma Option” ruled unconstitutional was blocked when the state Supreme Court refused to accept original jurisdiction to hear the case. But an attorney for the plaintiffs said Tuesday that the decision has no bearing on the constitutionality of the option, and he’ll continue pushing that case – along with a district court suit challenging voluntary comp that he plans to file today. Twelve days after it heard oral arguments in Pilkington and Lee v. State of Oklahoma ex. rel Doak, the high court denied the plainti...