‘The Exact Back-Room Deal’: State Farm Asks a Judge to Throw the Attorney General’s Lawyers Off the Case — and Files the Contract Oklahoma Was Never Shown
Ten days before the hearing on its own motion to dismiss, State Farm asked a Cleveland County judge to disqualify Whitten Burrage as the Oklahoma Attorney General’s counsel — and attached the State’s unposted contingency-fee contract with the firm. The 114-page filing, the contract’s 20-percent-to-$50-million fee schedule, the campaign-money argument, and what happened in West v. State Farm the same week.