Oklahoma telecom bribery case appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

A group of people who recently failed to convince the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and the state's supreme court to reopen a long-controversial decision involving Southwestern Bell in 1989 has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the matter.

Oklahomans Against Bribery wants the nation's highest court to consider whether plaintiffs' right to petition under the Constitution's First Amendment was violated when corporation commissioners voted 2 to 1 in 2016 against reopening the old case.

That request had been brought to the commission by a group of customers of the phone company, which is known today as AT&T.

The group sought to reopen the case because of subsequent bribery convictions obtained against then Corporation Commissioner Bob Hopkins and William Anderson, an attorney working on behalf of Southwestern Bell at the time.

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