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Childs v. State ex rel. Okla. State Univ.3/9/1993
sovereign negligence nor provides for nonresidents a regime that is different from that available to residents, it does survive a constitutional challenge on due process or equal protection grounds.
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Subdiv. 14 Does Not Violate The Full Faith And Credit Clause
The purpose of the Full Faith and Credit Clause is to secure recognition for the public acts of other states. Plaintiffs would have this court read the clause as a mandate to apply Texas law to the case at bar as well as that state's counterpart of our exclusivity provisions of 85 O.S.Supp. 1984 ยง 12 . A state is neither compelled to subordinate her laws to those of another state nor to substitute the workers' compensation regime of another state for that of her own, even when the other state's law affords an exclusive remedy.
The text of Subdiv. 14 under scrutiny here does not call upon us to give extraterritorial application to Oklahoma laws in violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause. The tort claims before us are not governed by Texas law but by Oklahoma's own legal system. Were we to adopt the plaintiffs' argument, the Texas-law version of compensation regime's exclusivity would be imposed extraterritorially upon these two claims for a tort that arose in this State. This we are neither required nor willing to do. As we noted recently, "There is nothing in the statutory language to indicate the Oklahoma Legislature's intent to apply extraterritorially the Governmental Tort Claims Act."
Summary judgments affirmed.
ALL JUSTICES CONCUR.
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