ABA Journal

MAY 8, 2023

Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution of an Oklahoma inmate after the state attorney general said he supported vacating the conviction. In…

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Friday morning appointed a former clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts to defend a ruling by an Oklahoma court leaving in place the conviction and death sentence of Richard Glossip – even after the state’s attorney general agreed that they should be set aside.

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APRIL 18, 2021

Supreme Court review of key questions arising out of last year’s Indian reservation decision.”

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to temporarily block the upcoming executions of two Oklahoma prisoners, Oklahoma Attorney General John M. Supreme Court in hopes of resuming executions after several botched lethal injections derailed the state’s death penalty system six years ago, reports the Washington Post.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 5, 2023

Share The Supreme Court put the execution of Richard Glossip on hold on Friday afternoon to give the justices time to consider the Oklahoma man’s appeals. The court’s brief unsigned order came four days after Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a highly unusual brief supporting Glossip’s request to stay his execution.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the attorney general’s office does not have authority under the consumer protection law to sue natural gas exploration firms over their leasing practices. Therefore, the defendants asserted that they were not subject to action under the UTPCPL.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“Splintered Supreme Court Wrestles With Case of Oklahoma Death Row Inmate; Some justices said the court was powerless to grant relief to the inmate, Richard Glossip; Others seemed ready to order a new trial or at least an evidentiary hearing”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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The Crime Report

JULY 8, 2022

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has set execution dates for 25 of the state’s 43 death-row prisoners, 0r 58 percent of its death row inmates, despite several having some mental health impairment, according to deathpenaltyinfo.org. Many inmates on death row have had some level of impairments before.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 17, 2021

Oklahoma’s attorney general pushes U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the McGirt decision.” “Defending state sovereignty or psychological denial? ” The Tulsa World recently published this editorial.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Share For the fourth time in 24 hours, the Supreme Court declined to block an execution. On Thursday morning, the justices rejected a plea from Oklahoma inmate Richard Fairchild, who had asked the justices to put his execution on hold to give him time to appeal a state court’s ruling on his mental competency.

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HowAppealing

MAY 5, 2023

“Supreme Court Stays Execution of Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip; The court acted after Oklahoma’s attorney general joined Mr. Glossip in urging it to halt the execution, which had been scheduled for May 18”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report on an order that the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of Marcellus Williams, who in 2001 was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 stabbing murder of Felicia Gayle. The brief unsigned orders came one day after the Missouri Supreme Court and the state’s governor, Mike Parson, turned down requests to stop the execution.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip is entitled to reversal of his conviction because the…

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JURIST

MAY 4, 2022

A Tulsa, Oklahoma judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit brought by three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre may proceed but dismissed part of the plaintiffs’ “public nuisance” claim. The lawsuit will allow for the survivors to seek reparations for the harm caused from the massacre.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share On Wednesday afternoon, in the shadow of reports of Justice Stephen Breyer’s forthcoming retirement announcement , the Supreme Court denied an application to postpone the executions of two Oklahoma men. The brief order , with no recorded dissents, cleared the way for Oklahoma to execute one of the men, Donald Grant, at 11 a.m.

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 17, 2018

On October 11th 2018, the Oklahoma Access to Justice Summit was held at the Oklahoma Bar Association in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. We spent a day recording interviews with attorneys working and donating their time in this space to learn more about the efforts to help Americans of low economic means with legal problems.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2024

Attorney General Merrick B. The department vowed to work closely with the city and the local police department to come to a “comprehensive court-enforceable settlement” to rectify the issues. The findings were published in a 126-page report, ending an investigation that began in 2021.

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2023

That question is so fundamental that even when—or maybe especially when—there is a life in the balance our courts try to duck it. The looming execution of Richard Glossip in Oklahoma, now scheduled for May 18, shows us where things stand in criminal justice. In 2014, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied Glossip clemency.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After a favorable ruling in state court, Oklahoma’s attorney general is withdrawing a cert petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn or limit a…

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Antiabortion activists at Supreme Court cite an unlikely authority for overturning Roe v. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will thus begin the process of considering what cases to review next fall during October Term 2022. The district court and U.S. What’s the difference ?

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Zach West serves as solicitor general for the state of Oklahoma. The state of Oklahoma, through Attorney General John M. Hopefully, the court will soon close that loophole, and relegate racial discrimination in higher education to the dustbin of history. The Supreme Court, hopefully, will rectify this egregious wrong.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Paul, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, took the unusual and creative step of asking a Section to assume responsibility for an initiative to examine ways that lawyers could use the internet and other electronic resources to deliver legal services to people of moderate means, more efficiently and effectively. This award is named for James I.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Appellate courts issued a bevy of important decisions applying federal benefits law in 2023, including a recent Second Circuit ruling in favor of Cornell University that deepened a circuit split and a Tenth Circuit finding that an Oklahoma law regulating pharmacy benefit managers was preempted.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2021

Under the law, people who committed crimes when they were under 25-years-old can petition courts to reduce their sentences after serving 15 years. Across the country in California, lawmakers recently passed Assembly Bill 2942, allowing district attorneys to request resentencing for anyone in their county.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Attorneys for the two men sentenced to death have argued in legal filings that the electric chair is “cruel and unusual,” noting that f rom 1890 to 2010, 84 executions in the electric chair were botched. . Shain concluded, saying, “We will notify the court when a firing squad becomes an option for executions.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court will consider a whopping 472 petitions and applications at this Friday’s conference, making it the biggest conference since the behemoth end-of-summer “long conference.” A panel of the U.S.

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Patently O

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. As such, the Federal District Court of Delaware has recently found itself at the center of this high-stakes debate about transparency and the purpose of the courts.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Supreme Court returns to the bench on October 7, 2024. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Royal Canin U.S.A., The specific issue before the Court is: “Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 4 2 U.S.C. 1983 in state court.” 1983 in state court.”

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a $113 million verdict an Oklahoma maker of radio control systems won in a trademark fight against its former partners in Europe, a dispute that has the potential to change how brand owners use U.S. courts to enforce trademarks against foreign businesses, attorneys told Law360.

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DigitalParalegalServices

AUGUST 12, 2015

Under the mentorship of four attorneys and supporting staff, I became familiar with all of the processes of a profitable small town law firm. Although I never expected to leave my home state of Texas, my paralegal career took a detour up Interstate 35 following my husband’s relocation to Oklahoma City. Will you be one of them?

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LawSites

APRIL 14, 2022

Also supporting the portal is LinGo , a non-profit social enterprise devoted to addressing public interests through legal innovations in Ukraine, which will manage the network to help coordinate connections between clients who need help and attorneys who are well-suited to assist. Read about Paladin on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

So, we had lawyers appearing as cats in court proceedings, legal commentators losing their gigs due to inappropriate behavior online, kids and pets making guest appearances in virtual hearings, and other misadventures. Remember how much you practiced your first moot court argument or your first “real court” argument?

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 8, 2019

Probably the best semi-recent example is the nearly universal acceptance of cloud-based technologies by attorneys. Marketer (and founder) of Attorney Sync Gyi Tsakalakis and solo practitioner (and featured presenter) Jess Birken share insights on picking key search terms as well as hiring SEO specialists.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Tuesday in Denezpi v. United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act.

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