Court Opinion

ID: 5150033
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 01:52:02.983227+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:25:00.011442
License: Public Domain

ORDER
¶ 1 Repondent seeks attorney fees and costs relating to his defense of an unsuccessful action before the Court on the Judiciary, under the authority of City Nat'l Bank and Trust Co. of Oklahoma City v.Ownes, 565 P.2d 4 (Okla. 1977), citing patently insufficient allegations contained in the Attorney General's petition.
¶ 2 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[.]"
¶ 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.
¶ 4 ELLIS, V.P.J., BOUDREAU, J., LUMPKIN, J., THOMPSON, J., and WINCHESTER, J. concur.
¶ 5 WINSLOW, J., disqualified.
¶ 6 LANNING, J., LINDLEY, J., not participating.