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Michael Minnis | Attorney

Michael Minnis

Michael Minnis

Michael Minnis & Associates

Litigation, Communication & Media Law, Native People, Constitutional Law, Patent

Experience: 53 years
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About Michael

Michael Minnis graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in 1966 and subsequently received his Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma School of Law in 1969. For more than twenty-five years, his practice has concentrated in the areas of Media and First Amendment Law and Indian Law. Mr. Minnis is active in numerous community organizations and professional associations. He also served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps as Trial/Defense Counsel for the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Air Force Reserve. He was appointed as Judge of the Court of Appeals Temporary Division No. 174 in 1982, and served as Chief Judge of the Town of Valleybrook 1982-1983.   

Mr. Minnis specializes in the areas of Media and First Amendment Law and Indian Law and has received an A-V Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating.

Representative Cases:

  • Continental Cas. Co. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., 860 F.2d 970 (C.A.10 (Okla.) 1988)
  • Oklahoma Pub. Co. v. Miskovsky, 654 P.2d 596 ( Okla. 1982)
  • Miskovsky v. Oklahoma Pub. Co., 103 S.Ct. 235 (U.S.Okla. 1982)
  • Oklahoma Pub. Co. v. District Court In and For Oklahoma County, 97 S.Ct. 1045 (U.S.Okla. 1977)
  • Oklahoma Tax Com'n v. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma , 111 S.Ct. 905 (U.S.Okla. 1991)
  • Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma v. Oklahoma Tax Com'n, 888 F.2d 1303 (C.A.10 (Okla.) 1989)
  • U.S. ex rel. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma v. Enterprise Management Consultants, Inc., 883 F.2d 886 (C.A.10 (Okla.) 1989)
  • Enterprise Management Consultants, Inc. v. U.S. ex rel. Hodel, 883 F.2d 890 (C.A.10 (Okla.) 1989)
  • U.S. ex rel. Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma v. Enterprise Management Consultants, Inc., 734 F.Supp. 455 (W.D.Okla. 1990)
  • Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma v. Oklahoma Tax Com'n, 1988 WL 122606 (W.D.Okla. 1988)
  • Oklahoma Pub. Co. v. District Court of Oklahoma County, 555 P.2d 1286 ( Okla. 1976)
  • McCormack v. Oklahoma Pub. Co., 613 P.2d 737 ( Okla. 1980)
  • Council on Judicial Complaints v. Maley, 607 P.2d 1180 ( Okla. 1980)
  • Oklahoma Pub. Co. v. Martin, 618 P.2d 944 ( Okla. 1980)
  • Taylor v. Miskovsky, 640 P.2d 959 ( Okla. 1981)
  • Oklahoma Pub. Co. v. U. S. , 515 F.Supp. 1255 (W.D.Okla. 1981)
  • Oklahoma Pub. Co. v. Standard Metals Corp., 541 F.Supp. 1109 (W.D.Okla. 1982)
  • Miskovsky v. Oklahoma Pub. Co., 654 P.2d 587 ( Okla. 1982)
  • Points v. Oklahoma Pub. Co., 672 P.2d 1146 ( Okla. 1983)
  • Oklahoma Hosp. Ass'n v. Oklahoma Pub. Co., 748 F.2d 1421 (C.A.10 (Okla.) 1984)
  • Oklahoma Pub. Co. v. City of Moore, 682 P.2d 754 ( Okla. 1984)
  • Association of Independent Television Stations, Inc. v. College Football Ass'n, 637 F.Supp. 1289 (W.D.Okla. 1986)
  • McCain v. KTVY, Inc., 738 P.2d 960 (Okla.App. Div. 3 1987)
  • In re Initiative Petition No. 347 State Question No. 639, 813 P.2d 1019 ( Okla. 1991)
  • City of Lawton v. Moore, 868 P.2d 690 ( Okla. 1993)
  • Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Littleton Leasing & Inv. Co., Inc., 582 F.2d 1237 (C.A.10 (Okla.) 1978)
  • S.E.C. v. Switzer, 590 F.Supp. 756 (W.D.Okla. 1984)
  • S.E.C. v. Platt, 565 F.Supp. 1244 (W.D.Okla. 1983)
  • Young v. Oklahoma City, 524 P.2d 22 ( Okla. 1974)
  • Smith v. Oklahoma City, 513 P.2d 1327 (Okla.Crim.App. 1973)

Admission

Verified California

1972

Verified Oklahoma

Education

University of Oklahoma