SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for his role in the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese, should get a new trial. Prosecutors have never contended that Glossip himself killed Van Treese, who owned the Oklahoma City motel where he worked.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2024

US Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond submitted an appeal to the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday. The preliminary injunction , which was issued last month, prevented Oklahoma from enforcing the bill. However, critics of the Bill argue that it promotes racial profiling.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Attorney Generals Office agrees to transfer prisoner from Louisiana for Oklahoma execution”: Emma Murphy of Oklahoma Voice has this report. “U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Share Eight years after the Supreme Court blocked his execution so that it could consider a challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol, the justices agreed on Monday to take up the case of Richard Glossip , who is seeking to set aside his conviction and death sentence.

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APRIL 19, 2021

“Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers keynote speech at Oklahoma City bombing ceremony”: Josh Dulaney of The Oklahoman has this report.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

“Oklahoma attorney general urges Supreme Court to overturn McGirt”: Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report. Shanmugam appears as counsel of record for Oklahoma on the cert. ” And Sean Murphy of The Associated Press reports that “ Man whose case led to landmark ruling reconvicted by feds.”

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Oklahoma attorney general says there is "no legal bias" for giving ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to combat the virus. .

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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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JUNE 6, 2023

“What is the Significance of an Attorney General’s Confession of Error in a State Capital Case? In my Supreme Court amicus brief for the victim’s family in Oklahoma v. The post “What is the Significance of an Attorney General’s Confession of Error in a State Capital Case?

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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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JANUARY 29, 2021

“Oklahoma City asks Supreme Court to review 2015 panhandling ordinance”: William Crum of The Oklahoman has an article that begins, “A controversial Oklahoma City panhandling ordinance thrown out by a Denver court would have ‘withstood constitutional scrutiny’ in other parts of the country, attorneys for the city said Wednesday (..)

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APRIL 18, 2021

“Bosse to stay in Oklahoma custody while McGirt ruling is appealed to Supreme Court”: Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has an article that begins, “The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals agreed Thursday to grant a 45-day pause in overturning the murder convictions of death row inmate Shaun Michael Bosse, giving Oklahoma Attorney General (..)

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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. In response to a recent decision by the U.S. O’Connor will appeal the decision to the U.S.

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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

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. He has also served as an assistant to the U.S.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Shortly after the court’s ruling, Oklahoma executed Fairchild by lethal injection.

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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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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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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 While the settlement ends the present lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a new lawsuit against Google last month for allegedly collecting biometric data on millions of Texans without their informed consent.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2021

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

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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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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. The lower courts ruled that the attorney general’s office’s consumer protection claims were “legally viable.”

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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The attorneys argued that midazolam does not adequately prevent an inmate from feeling pain and creates a risk of severe pain and suffering. Attorneys for the state rejected that argument and maintained that a 500-milligram dose of the sedative was more than enough to ensure that inmates are unable to feel pain.

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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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ABA Journal

MAY 27, 2021

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter announced his resignation Wednesday—a day after the Oklahoman submitted questions to him about an affair with a state employee. In a…

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

For 2022, attorneys and law firms should take a careful look at where they are at on their tech journey, and set a reasonable budget to get to their next level. Attorneys and firms need to have a sufficient online presence and tech-enabled practice to serve clients, who generally expect to work with their attorney online.

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Law 360

APRIL 22, 2024

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has announced the hiring of two experienced securities attorneys from regional firm Conner & Winters LLP to its corporate and mergers and acquisitions practice in its Oklahoma City office.

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2023

The looming execution of Richard Glossip in Oklahoma, now scheduled for May 18, shows us where things stand in criminal justice. The Finality of Error Justin Sneed brutally killed Barry Van Treese with a baseball bat in the Best Budget Motel in Oklahoma City on January 7, 1997.

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Above The Law

APRIL 5, 2022

These Allegations Are Disturbing: And Oklahoma is seeking the death penalty. These plaintiffs attorneys sure think so. Amy Coney Barrett's Disingenuous Comments Get Some Serious Side Eye: But she's not talking to the lawyers who know better. . Biglaw Wedding! At the White House. Did This Biglaw Firm Act In Bad Faith?

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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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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2024

Attorney General Merrick B. The Department of Justice has several open investigations regarding police departments around the country including cases in Mississippi , Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oklahoma. The findings were published in a 126-page report, ending an investigation that began in 2021.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jim Calloway , Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program and Julie Bays , OBA Practice Management Advisor, aiding attorneys in using technology and other tools to efficiently manage their offices, recommend that now is a good time to experiment with specific AI-powered tools and suggest the best techniques for using them. (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Louis, where Williams was convicted, had asked courts to overturn his conviction, but the state’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, opposed those efforts. The Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for St. In that case, the state’s attorney general has supported Glossip’s efforts to set aside his conviction and death sentence.

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