Modification of Judicial Education Requirements for 2020-2021

Summary

The Oklahoma Supreme Court temporarily modified mandatory judicial continuing legal education requirements for calendar years 2020 and 2021 in response to the COVID-19 emergency and cancellation of judicial education events. The order reduced the requirement from 12 hours per year to a combined total of 18 hours over the two-year period, with credit permitted in either year and 2019 carryover hours applicable.

Holdings

1. The annual requirement was temporarily reduced from twelve hours per year to a combined total of eighteen hours for calendar years 2020 and 2021, with the credit permitted to be earned in either or both years.

Questions Presented

1. Whether good cause existed to temporarily modify the mandatory judicial continuing legal education requirement for 2020 and 2021.
2. What temporary continuing legal education requirement should apply to judges and justices for those calendar years.

Disposition

other