Title: State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Maxwell

State: oklahoma

Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court

Document:

State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Maxwell  State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Maxwell 1989 OK 111 777 P.2d 944 Case Number: SCBD, 3544, OBAD, 883 Decided: 07/18/1989 Supreme Court of Oklahoma STATE OF OKLAHOMA EX REL. OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION, COMPLAINANT, v. JAMES I. MAXWELL, RESPONDENT. ORDER ¶1 After careful review of the matters submitted in the above-entitled cause the Court finds that respondent's motion that the [ 777 P.2d 945 ] date of his Resignation Pending Disciplinary Proceedings be made retroactive to the date of a prior suspension should be, and is, hereby denied. ¶2 The effective date of a resignation is upon filing the resignation with the Executive Director. State ex rel. OBA v. Perkins, 757 P.2d 825 , 827 (Okl. 1988), Rule 8.1, Ch. 1, App. 1-A. The effective date of respondent's resignation herein is November 29, 1988. ¶3 IT IS SO ORDERED. ¶4 HARGRAVE, C.J., OPALA, V.C.J., and HODGES, LAVENDER and SIMMS, JJ., concur. ¶5 KAUGER, J., dissents by stare decisis. ¶6 SUMMERS, J., dissents. ¶7 DOOLIN, J., disqualified. KAUGER, Justice, dissenting by reason of stare decisis. See State ex rel. Okla. Bar Ass'n v. Smith, 58 OBJ 283 (February 7, 1987).