The Institute for Justice says it is helping Melisa Robinson go to court – AGAIN – to collect what the Oklahoma Supreme Court already has ruled a city owes her.
The problem is that an entity run by the city of Okay, its Public Works Authority, was ruled by the high court to owe Robinson $73,000 damages – now $200,000 including interest, for having its workers dig “a sewer line” on a small mobile home community owned by Robinson.
There was no permission, no authorization for that to have happened.
But the city says the Public Works division is a trust, and while it may owe Robison money, that division’s assets all are owned by the city, and it claims no responsibility for the judgment.
“No one would sell their house if, at closing, the buyer showed up with an IOU instead of with money, but that’s exactly what Okay is trying to get away with here,” said IJ Attorney Brian Morris. “But constitutional rights aren’t a