Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 20-30.14: Additional divisions of Court of Civil Appeals — Court

of Existing Claims Division.

A. 1. In addition to the provisions of Sections 30.1 through

30.19 of this title, and in addition to the four permanent divisions

established by Section 30.2 of this title, the Court of Civil

Appeals shall consist of as many additional divisions as the Supreme

Court may deem advisable to convene for prompt disposition of its

docket. Each division shall consist of three Judges, at least two

of whom shall concur in any decision. In the exercise of its powers

granted by Article VII, Section 6 of the Oklahoma Constitution, the

Supreme Court shall make temporary assignments of judicial officers,

active or retired, and lawyers, having prior to their assignment the

qualifications of a district judge, to sit on a division of the

Court of Civil Appeals convened under the authority of this section.

Each division of the Court of Civil Appeals shall select its

presiding Judge. The Supreme Court may prescribe by rule where the

division shall sit and how that Court shall conduct its business and

practice before it.

2. The Court of Civil Appeals shall establish a division to be

referred to as the Court of Existing Claims (CEC) Division of the

Court of Civil Appeals which shall replace the three-judge en banc

panel of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Existing Claims. The

CEC Division of the Court of Civil Appeals shall be vested with

jurisdiction over all appeals in the same manner as appeals to the

three-judge en banc panel filed pursuant to the Workers’

Compensation Code or previous statute in effect on the date of an

injury that occurred before February 1, 2014. In no event does the

CEC Division of the Court of Civil Appeals, as successor to the

three-judge en banc panel, have jurisdiction over any claim arising

on or after the effective date of this act.

B. Each division of the Court of Civil Appeals convened under

the authority of this section shall have jurisdiction to determine

or otherwise dispose of any case assigned to it by the Supreme

Court, and its decisions, when final, shall be neither appealable to

the Supreme Court nor be subject to reexamination by another

division of the Court of Civil Appeals or by the Judges of that

Court sitting en banc. The Supreme Court may recall a case from the

Court of Civil Appeals; it may review a decision of the Court of

Civil Appeals when a majority of its Justices direct that certiorari

be granted. In any case assigned to it by the Supreme Court, the

Court of Civil Appeals shall have the power to issue writs of habeas

corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, certiorari, and prohibition.

C. The opinions of the Court of Civil Appeals shall be written

in the form prescribed by the Supreme Court. No opinion of the

Court of Civil Appeals shall be binding or cited as a precedent

unless it has been approved by the Supreme Court for publication in

the official reporter. The Supreme Court shall prescribe by rule

which opinion or decision, if any, of the Court of Civil Appeals

shall be published in the unofficial reporter.

D. The jurisdiction, powers, duties and procedures of the Court

of Civil Appeals shall be as provided by rules of the Supreme Court

unless otherwise provided by statute.

E. No judicial officer, except as otherwise authorized by law,

temporarily assigned to sit on the Court of Civil Appeals shall be

entitled to additional compensation for judicial service on that

Court. Expenses of judicial officers and lawyers assigned to the

Court of Civil Appeals incurred in performing their duties shall be

reimbursed pursuant to the State Travel Reimbursement Act, Section

500.1 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

F. The Supreme Court shall prescribe by rule the scope of

review it will afford when a petition for certiorari to the Court of

Civil Appeals is filed.