The event’s chairman said his role as lead attorney in the case that helped trigger a contentious first special session is not related to the event’s cancellation.
The top priority listed in the request document is an additional $10.1 million for employee salary increases.
The suit asks the court to vacate the OWRB’s approval of a permit allowing Oklahoma City to withdraw up to 37.5 billion gallons of water each year from Sardis Lake and the Kiamichi River.
The money comes from companies marketing medications, vaccines and medical devices, ranging from HIV/AIDS drugs to contact lenses.
In October the company’s founder was arrested in Arizona after being indicted for allegedly using a “speakers program” to bribe doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid painkiller to patients.
A spokesman for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that the state will seek to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If approved by the court, the merger agreement would allow the nonprofit organization, OU Medicine Inc., to take over ownership of most of the hospitals and clinics that are part of the OU Medical System, currently owned by the for-profit Hospital Corp. of America, as well as take over management of the medical system from HCA.
Though the fatal police shooting of the man was covered by media at the time, it had not been publicly revealed that Brown had also been shot during the incident until the lawsuit was filed on Monday.
