Court Opinion

ID: 5155629
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 02:17:37.075384+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:54:34.876336
License: Public Domain

[9] Because the Oklahoma fundamental law expressly mandates an omni-competent single-tier *Page 1051 
trial court,1 we are not free to chop up our district court "into rigidly divided compartments with tightly restricted inter-divisional movement of cases."2
No legislatively-prescribed time limit that affects — directly or obliquely — the inter-docket transfers of cases within the district court may hence be treated as a jurisdictional barrier. A contrary construction would offend the Constitution's institutional design for the district court.3
1 Art. 7, § 7, Okla.Con. (1967 Amendment).
2 Carter v. Gullett, Okla., 602 P.2d 640, 641 [1979] (dissenting opinion by Opala, J.).
3 Carter v. Gullett, supra note 2 at p. 643 (dissenting opinion by Opala, J.).
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