Opala sues fellow court justices

[seriousstan]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Marian P. Opala is taking his feud with his fellow justices to federal court.

Opala, in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, says he was discriminated against when his fellow justices changed a rule and barred him from becoming chief justice.

He names chief justice Joseph M. Watt and seven other justices as defendants in the civil case.

The rule change in November allowed Watt to succeed himself as chief justice. If the change had not been made, Opala was in line to become chief justice under a rotation process
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[mahina]

1. Opala- he he

Lucky he doesn't live here. His kids would really get it.

[OKNancy]

2. He is a long-time

Law professor. My dad said he was the best he had ever had. He is also a died-in-the-wool liberal. He's a character out of a novel.
A lovely man.