Title: IN THE MATTER OF THE STRIKING OF NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION
Citation: 2017 OK 50
Docket Number: SCBD-6395
State: Oklahoma
Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court
Date: June 19, 2017

IN THE MATTER OF THE STRIKING OF NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION2017 OK 50Case Number: SCBD-6395Decided: 06/19/2017THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

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IN THE MATTER OF THE STRIKING OF NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION FOR NONPAYMENT OF 2016 DUES
ORDER STRIKING NAMES
The Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association filed an Application for Order Striking Names of attorneys from the Oklahoma Bar Association(s membership rolls for failure to pay dues as members of the Oklahoma Bar Association for the year 2016.
Pursuant to the Rules Creating and Controlling the Oklahoma Bar Association (Rules), 5 O.S. 2011 ch. 1, app 1, art. VIII (2, the Oklahoma Bar Association(s members named on Exhibit A, attached hereto, were suspended from membership in the Oklahoma Bar Association and prohibited from practicing law in the State of Oklahoma by this Court(s Order of June 6, 2016, for failure to pay their 2016 dues in accordance with Article VIII, Section 2 of the Rules. Based upon the application, this Court finds that the Board of Governors determined at its May 19, 2017, meeting that none of the Oklahoma Bar Association members named on Exhibit A, attached hereto, have applied for reinstatement at the time of the filing of its application. The Board of Governors further declared that the members set out on Exhibit A, attached hereto, shall cease to be members of the Oklahoma Bar Association and that their names should therefore be stricken from its membership rolls and the Roll of Attorneys, pursuant to Article VIII, Section 5 of the Rules on June 6, 2017. This Court further finds that the actions of the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association are in compliance with the Rules.
It is therefore ordered that the attorneys named on Exhibit A, attached hereto, are hereby stricken from the Roll of Attorneys for failure to pay their dues as members of the Association for the year 2016.
DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 19TH DAY OF JUNE, 2017.