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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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

In my second dispatch from this Convention, I spoke with the amendment’s sponsor, Crispin South, a Choctaw law student at ASU and a delegate representing Oklahoma. He said the amendment was important to protect tribal sovereignty from Supreme Courts that often don’t understand the rights tribal nations have. New London.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

But the court denied review last week in a case that sought to invalidate the burden-shifting framework that has long governed employment discrimination cases. When the case arrived at the Supreme Court, Escobar argued that his case presents the same question as Glossip v. Relisted after the May 30, 2024 and Mar.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. Justin Sneed murdered Barry Van Treese, owner of an Oklahoma City motel, in one of the guest rooms. Below we briefly discuss those 14 cases. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

Oklahoma last term, the court confronted the complex past of Oklahoma’s Native nations, Chehalis turns on the unique legal history of Alaskan Natives. Though Alaska became part of the United States in 1867, the federal government only fitfully devoted attention to the status of the new territory’s Indigenous peoples.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The answer the court gave was a stern rebuke, vitiating the plenary control that lower-court decisions had granted the state for more than a quarter of a century. The most controversial provisions of that statute, addressed in Ysleta , are the provisions that govern the tribes’ subjection to Texas gambling regulations.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The state of Oklahoma put James Coddington to death on Aug. It marks the beginning of a busy period at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s execution chamber. Photo courtesy Oklahoma Dept. Today, fewer jurisdictions are using the death penalty, but some – like Oklahoma – seem to be doubling down. James Coddingon.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Andrew, who is the only woman on death row in Oklahoma, came to the Supreme Court in January 2024, asking the justices to reverse her conviction. She contended that the Supreme Courts cases prohibit the use of evidence that, as in her case, makes the trial fundamentally unfair. That was wrong, the court concluded.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The court has an unusual number of relists this week, including an unusual number of cases that would be blockbusters if the court decides to take them. Oklahoma cases as a single case — that I have to be extremely summary. The court faced but did not decide the issue of whether to overrule Smith in last term’s Fulton v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

State governments are already responding to the Dobbs decision with new regulations banning abortion or working to reinforce protections for people seeking abortions in their states across state lines. Oklahoma also had a 2019 trigger law on the books, effective Aug 26. Law: Oklahoma SB612 (and others). South Dakota.

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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. The Oklahoma law governing charter schools requires them to be non-religious in their programs, admissions policies, and other operations. It concluded that St.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

While the Supreme Court routinely throws out lower-court decisions granting prisoners habeas relief, its fairly uncommon for the justices to summarily grant relief to habeas petitioners. Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Relisted after the Dec. 10 and Jan. 17 conferences.) Apache Stronghold v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

This minimal test requires government action to have a legitimate purpose and the law in question to be rationally related to that purpose. Additionally, travel distance is a known barrier to care that jeopardizes health, which the court recognized in 2016 in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Republican-led “anti-ESG” (environmental, social, governance) movement over the last two years has largely been a legislative effort, comprised primarily of state-level bills that attempt to halt the consideration of climate risk and other commonplace factors in investment decisions connected with government funds, contracts, and pensions.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Until 2020, the horse-racing industry was governed primarily by the states, resulting in a patchwork of differing regulations. The district court dismissed both claims. The authority noted that the FTC has the power both to stop enforcement actions by the authority and to review decisions once they are made. 10 conference.)

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

Together, these cases deal with balancing government authority, economic activity, and individual rights. In Boechler , she emphasized deference to Congresss intent, arguing that the Court should not extend exceptions like equitable tolling beyond what the law explicitly allows, despite its traditional role in American jurisprudence.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2025

This week, we highlight a number of those petitions the justices are set to consider, seeking review of lower court decisions on student-loan forgiveness, the constitutionality of federal agencies, and more. Student-loan forgiveness Another 5th Circuit ruling led to the governments petition in Department of Education v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

From the Washington Post : A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of ordering a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip , whose long-running appeal attracted broad support after independent investigations revealed prosecutorial misconduct. Law Firm Following Court Approval.

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