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Article: LEGISLATIVE DAY CASE CALLED UNNECESSARY

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An Oklahoma Supreme Court decision in a 1986 case involving the length of a legislative day makes it unnecessary for the court to take up the issue again, according to a response Friday by Assistant Attorney General Neal Leader.

The response was drafted as a reply to a suit filed by Gov. Henry Bellmon against the Oklahoma Legislature.

Friday was the deadline by which the defendants in the suit, including Oklahoma House of Representatives Speaker Jim Barker, D-Muskogee, Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Bob Cullison, D-Skiatook, and Lt. Gov. Robert S. Kerr III, had to respond to Bellmon's original filing on Wednesday. Attorney General Robert Henry's office is acting as legal ...

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