On November 10, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down several restrictions on initiative petitions that the legislature had passed in 2025. McVay v Lepak, 123179. Parts of the opinion were unanimous but other parts were 5-4. Here is the Opinion.

Unanimously struck were a law that initiative circulators must be registered voters, and a ban on initiative campaigns receiving contributions from out-of-state individuals, and a law that gave the Secretary of State more power to describe how the initiative idea appears on the ballot, and detailed disclosure rules on how much, and when, each paid circulator was paid.

Also struck down, but not unanimously, was a ban on paying circulators-per-signature, and a cap on how many signatures could be collected from each county.

There were other restrictions that were not challenged, but the majority struck down the entire law, Senate Bill 1027, so even those less controversial provisions were eliminated. The majority felt that there were so many unconstitutional provisions in the bill, the remainder could not be severed out.