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ALSO INSIDE: Seeking Default Judgment • Milestone Anniversaries Researching Tribal Court Opinions • 25th Bombing Anniversary • Mock Trial Program Volume 91 — No. 4 — April 2020 LAW DAY 2020 POWERING PAYMENTS FOR THE Trust Payment IOLTA Deposit Amount LEGAL $ 1,500.00 INDUSTRY Reference NEW CASE The easiest way to accept credit card and eCheck payments online. 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JACKSON 54 Seeking Default Judgment: After SCHWEIGERT DEPARTMENTS BY KRAETTLI Q. EppERSON 4 From the President 58 First Emergency Joint Order Regarding the 60 From the Executive Director COVID-19 State of Disaster 62 Law Practice Tips 65 Ethics & Professional Responsibility 66 Board of Governors Actions 70 Oklahoma Bar Foundation News 72 Young Lawyers Division 74 For Your Information th 75 Bench and Bar Briefs PAGE 36 – 25 Bombing Anniversary 76 In Memoriam 77 Editorial Calendar 80 The Back Page PAGE 42 – High School Mock Trial Program FROM THE PRESIDENT Why Do Suffragettes Wear White? By Susan B. Shields AVE YOU HEARD this is an election year? News also media savvy. These women selected Habout the election is everywhere when you watch three identifying colors to wear to events – television, read the news, listen to the radio, turn on your purple to represent loyalty, gold as a nod to computer or open your mail. In fact, I have been receiving the sunflowers of Kansas where Susan B. so many emails and mail about the election that I feel like Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton cam- I have some new pen pals. I have great memories of taking paigned (green in Britain to signify hope) my sons to vote with me when they were young. I also and white to represent purity and virtue. fondly remember walk- Suffragettes would ing down the street to often wear the purple vote with my parents as and gold (or green) a child at their local poll- The suffragettes wanted a as a sash over a white ing place in our neigh- dress at public events borhood in Bartlesville. symbolic way to dress to show as emblems of the As a young woman, I suffrage movement. did not appreciate that they were part of the cause, and Photographs in those I would not have the days were, of course, in right to vote without they were also media savvy. black and white, mean- the women’s suffrage ing that photos of a sea movement of the early of marching women 20th century. That’s one of the reasons why the theme wearing white dresses provided a clear of Law Day this year celebrating the 100th anniversary of the and bright contrast on the front pages of ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to newspapers. So, when you notice women vote is very meaningful to me. The 19th Amendment reads: wearing white in today’s politics or at the polls – or perhaps at Law Day events – it is “The right of citizens of the United a symbolic way of recognizing the efforts States to vote shall not be denied or of the suffragettes and the passage of the abridged by the United States or by 19th Amendment. any state on account of sex.” As always, if you have a question, comment or suggestion concerning the After Congress approved the OBA, please feel free to call or email me 19th Amendment in June 1919, at at [email protected]. least 36 states needed to vote to rat- ify the amendment for it to become law. Oklahoma was one of the orig- APRIL WELLNESS TIP inal 36 states, voting for ratification A good tip I am trying to on Feb. 28, 1920. incorporate is to not turn on the In the years leading up to the computer for the first hour after approval of the 19th Amendment, the getting to work in the morning. women who lobbied for the right to vote This provides time for some in the U.S. and Britain were known as productive and focused work President Shields practices in suffragettes. The suffragettes wanted without the distraction (and Oklahoma City. [email protected] a symbolic way to dress to show they stress) of checking emails. 405-552-2311 were part of the cause, and they were 4 | APRIL 2020 THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL is a publication of the Oklahoma Bar Association. All rights reserved. Copyright© 2020 Oklahoma Bar Association. 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Box 53036, Oklahoma City, OK 73152-3036. THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL APRIL 2020 | 5 LAW DAY 2020 Law Day 2020: A Day of Service and Outreach By Ed Wunch N JUST A FEW WEEKS’ TIME, we will have the opportunity to celebrate Law Day. IThe OBA is again sponsoring the Ask a Lawyer TV program on OETA. Although some events may be scaled back or cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, lawyers are still working to serve their communities. Law Day is also a chance for attorneys to help educate their neighbors about the role of the legal system in society. Law Day began as a celebration As part of the celebration of Law of the role of law in society.