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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Share Twice in the past decade the Supreme Court has blocked Oklahoma from executing Richard Glossip. But even with the Oklahoma’s rare confession of error, both the state’s highest court for criminal cases and the state’s pardon and parole board turned down Glossip’s pleas for relief. 9, two former U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Oklahoma Federal Court Allowed Landowner to Proceed with NEPA Challenge of Osage Nation Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Northern District of Oklahoma denied non-federal defendants’ motion to dismiss a landowner’s lawsuit claiming that the U.S. Optimus Steel, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers , No.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

“Supreme Court Grants New Trial to Death Row Inmate in Oklahoma; Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a potential replacement for the now-dismissed Servotronics Inc. Oklahoma should apply retroactively, and whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates a website designer’s First Amendment rights. In last year’s McGirt v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals the states highest court for criminal cases rejected the trial courts findings, insisting that the revised DNA analysis still pointed to Escobar’s guilt and citing other inculpatory evidence, such as Escobars bloody fingerprint and inconsistent alibi.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

Supreme Court ruled that certain cocktails of the lethal injection drugs produce results that are “cruel and unusual punishment” — particularly citing a case in Missouri where an inmate had a rare disease that following a reaction to the injection, he suffocated as his blood filled his airway, according to the DPIC.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 18, 2023

Casey Flaherty also demonstrated through his technology audit that technology competency is a critical legal skill for practice that many attorneys do not possess. Jim Calloway, Management Assistance Program Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association, has expressed the need for technology know-how in the profession for over 20 years.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Its legal proceedings take place out of public view, under seal, with a low standard of evidence and often a court-appointed attorney for the fetus — but none for the person gestating it. With abortion now largely inaccessible in Wisconsin, Act 292 could become more widely applied, worries Loertscher’s attorney Freya Bowen.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 22, 2025

The Supreme Court on Thursday morning left in place a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting an effort by a Catholic virtual charter school to become the countrys first religious charter school. The state supreme court granted that request. The order did not indicate how any of the justices voted.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Three days later, the county’s District Attorney dropped the charges and released her from jail, after a statewide (and nationwide) outcry. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2025

On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to review a potentially blockbuster religion clause case in Oklahoma Charter School Board v. The lower court ruled that such funding of a religious school is unconstitutional. However, there is a catch. While the lawyers representing St. Constitution.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2025

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a Catholic virtual charter schools bid to become the nations first religious charter school. But the states attorney general counters that a ruling in favor of the Catholic school could upend the charter-school system nationwide. It concluded that St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Missouri’s attorney general had promulgated two rules that required securities firms and professionals to obtain consent forms from Missouri investors before incorporating a “social objective” or other “non-financial objective” into their securities recommendations or investment advice. The law had resulted in a 15.7%

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 30, 2025

The case began two years ago, when Oklahomas charter school board approved an application by the archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the diocese of Tulsa to establish St. Gentner Drummond, the states Republican attorney general, went to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, asking it to invalidate the boards contract with St.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A federal district court ruled that emails sent by Eastman, who in August was indicted in Georgia along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others on charges that they conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, should be turned over under the “crime-fraud” exception to the protection for attorney-client communications.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed. The court of appeals refused, instead expediting argument. By a split vote, the 6th Circuit then reversed the lower courts’ rulings , concluding that the states were likely to win their appeals. The court thus allowed the laws go into effect.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A three-judge district court ruled that D.C. residents are not entitled to representation in the House because they do not live in a “state”; the Supreme Court on Monday allowed that ruling to stand. The justices sent Biden v.

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