Opinion ID: 1163270
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Heading: the teachings of city and its progeny

Text: City [4] teaches that the sentence of nullity pronounced in that case shall govern all constitutional challenges to prevailing-wage contract clauses, interposed by public construction builders, whose claims, counterclaims or cross-claims were pending in the litigation pipeline on October 10, 1995. In Prime Electric Co., Inc. v. Oklahoma State Dept. of Labor, [5] the central issue was whether City applied retrospectively to certain laborers' claims based on a prevailing-wage contract clause. The court held that the laborers' claims in that case were in the pipeline (created by City's supplemental opinion on rehearing) and hence fell under that decision's axe of constitutional invalidation. [6] We are not called upon to test here the validity of any public construction contract by the prospectivity yardstick crafted in City or by the standards of Prime. There is no executed contract tendered for our review. The focus in this case is solely on whether our pronouncement in City rendered Authority's quest for relief by declaratory judgment moot.