Frontiers of age discrimination: Marian P. Opala, a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, has gone to federal court to sue all eight of his colleagues charging age bias. Members of the court select one of their number to serve as chief justice, and for years the seat has rotated automatically among members, but lately, as Opala’s turn was drawing near, the court voted to change the rules to adopt a different selection method. Eugene Volokh called the justice’s equal protection claim “very, very weak” and said it was annoying to see an official of a state court seek the intervention of a federal court against the authority of his own. (Adam Liptak, “Oklahoma Judge, 83, Files Bias Suit Against Colleagues”, New York Times, Jan. 5).
Oklahoma high court judge sues colleagues
Frontiers of age discrimination: Marian P. Opala, a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, has gone to federal court to sue all eight of his colleagues charging age bias. Members of the court select one of their number to serve as chief justice, and for years the seat has rotated automatically among members, but lately, […]
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