Case Name: STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel., W.A. Drew EDMONDSON, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Petitioner, v. Gregory K. FRIZZELL, District Judge, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Respondent
Court: Oklahoma Court of the Judiciary
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 2001-11-27
Citations: 37 P.3d 979
Docket Number: No. CJAD-2000-2
Parties: STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel., W.A. Drew EDMONDSON, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Petitioner, v. Gregory K. FRIZZELL, District Judge, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Respondent.
Judges: 14 ELLIS, V.P.J., BOUDREAU, J., LUMPKIN, J., THOMPSON, J., and WINCHESTER, J., concur.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 3d
Volume: 37
Pages: 979–979

Head Matter:
2001 OK JUD 1
STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel., W.A. Drew EDMONDSON, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Petitioner, v. Gregory K. FRIZZELL, District Judge, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Respondent.
No. CJAD-2000-2.
Court on the Judiciary of Oklahoma, Appellate Division.
Nov. 27, 2001.

Opinion:
ORDER
HAL WM. ELLIS, Vice Presiding Judge.
T1 Respondent seeks attorney fees and costs relating to his defense of an unsuceessful action before the Court on the Judiciary, under the authority of City Natl Bank and Trust Co. of Oklahoma City v. Owens, 565 P.2d 4 (Okla.1977), citing patently insufficient allegations contained in the Attorney General's petition.
12 Owens provides that a court has inherent equitable authority to award limited attorney fees against a party who has caused the wasted expenditures where that party has acted "in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, or for oppressive reason[.]"
4 3 The Application for Attorney Fees and Costs is denied. The record does not establish that the action against Respondent was brought in bad faith or was vexatious, wanton or oppressive.
14 ELLIS, V.P.J., BOUDREAU, J., LUMPKIN, J., THOMPSON, J., and WINCHESTER, J., concur.
11 5 WINSLOW, J., disqualified.
I 6 LANNING, J., LINDLEY, J., not participating.