Case Title: SMITH v. SIEMENS

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Docket Number: 111244

State: oklahoma

Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court

Date: 2013-09-12T00:00:00Z

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SMITH v. SIEMENS  SMITH v. SIEMENS 2013 OK 70 Case Number: 111244 Decided: 09/12/2013 THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA NOTICE: THIS OPINION HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE PERMANENT LAW REPORTS. UNTIL RELEASED, IT IS SUBJECT TO REVISION OR WITHDRAWAL. CHARLENE C. SMITH, Individually and as Surviving Spouse of Jon Dwight Smith, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROGER A. SIEMENS, M.D., SURGICAL ASSOCIATES, INC., BRIAN D. WORLEY, M.D., VERNON TOM SMITH, M.D., PULMONARY MEDICINE ASSOCIATES, INC., and SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL, INC., Defendants-Appellees. ORDER ¶ 1The Court notes the Agreed Order Granting Motion for Relief From Automatic Stay Upon Conditions filed August 12, 2013, in the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy of Appellee Surgical Associates, Inc., which modified the automatic stay to allow Appellant to proceed with the state court litigation and the appeal in this Court. See In re: Surgical Associates, Inc., Case No. 13-10081-R (Bankr. N.D.Okla. Aug. 12, 2013). The stay entered by this Court on January 25, 2013, in the above-styled cause is lifted. ¶ 2Rule 1.201 of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules provides that "[i]n any case in which it appears that a prior controlling appellate decision is dispositive of the appeal, the court may summarily affirm or reverse, citing in its order of summary disposition this rule and the controlling decision." Okla. S. Ct. Rule 1.201. ¶ 3After reviewing the record in this case, THE COURT FINDS that our recent decisions in Wall v. Marouk, 2013 OK 36, 302 P.3d 775 and Douglas v. Cox Retirement Properties, 2013 OK 37, 302 P.3d 789 , dispose of the issues in this case relating to Section 19. We express no opinion on whether the trial court properly found good cause existed to extend Plaintiff's time to obtain service under 12 O.S. § 2004(I). Upon remand, Appellees are not precluded from re-presenting this issue. ¶ 4IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the trial court's dismissal of this case is reversed and the cause is remanded for further proceedings. DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT this 12TH day of September, 2013. /S/CHIEF JUSTICE COLBERT, C.J., REIF, V.C.J., KAUGER, WATT, EDMONDSON, COMBS, GURICH, JJ. – CONCUR WINCHESTER & TAYLOR, JJ. – DISSENT