ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Baltimore and Incinerator Operator Settled Lawsuit over Local Air Law. Oil pump, ( Creative Commons ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The Supreme Court is hitting its stride in sorting through the relists. At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit. New Relists Escobar v.

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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. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected that claim. Tingley also asks the court to overrule Employment Division v. Four years ago, the Supreme Court held in Nieves v.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2024

JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. This is the third in a series of dispatches he’s filed as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at ASU Law. New London.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

The US Supreme Court announced Monday it will review the legality of state efforts to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors — a contentious issue in a nation deeply divided over transgender rights and the role of medical intervention in youth gender identity. The case, US v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The term refers guns that are assembled in parts and, therefore, difficult to trace by law enforcement due to their lack serial numbers and transfer records. Oklahoma: The death penalty case has the support of Oklahoma’s attorney general who agrees that Gossip should be granted a new trial. Williams v. Maryland and Napue v.

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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 lower courts quickly allowed Texas to act under those provisions to subject tribal operations to the full range of its regulations.

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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. Consequently, when Alaska became a state in 1959 and when, soon thereafter, oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, federal law left open many questions — especially land ownership.

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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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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2022

The Oklahoma House has voted overwhelmingly for a Republican-sponsored bill that would make performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine, with the only exception being if the life of the mother is in danger, reports the Washington Post.

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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. Smith , and if so, whether the Supreme Court should overrule Smith. They invoke Rapanos 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. Below is an updating guide to states with now-active legislation or trigger laws banning or criminalizing abortion. Washington Gov.

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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. Notre Dame Law Professor Nicole Garnett has been involved in the case and the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic is on the brief for St. Here is the lower court decision: St.

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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. Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 conferences.) (Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 conferences.) Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Utley professor of health law at Boston University School of Public Health and professor of law at Boston University School of Law. “[T]he Occasionally, “rational basis with teeth” finds laws lack even a legitimate purpose – Lawrence v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Since 2021, more than 30 rules, guidelines, boycotts and laws have been passed by various states to thwart ESG goals and bolster industries such as fossil fuels and firearms. In finding the two laws were preempted by existing federal law, the court highlighted the broad preemption clause contained within ERISA.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Calumet Shreveport Refining and Oklahoma v. Callais ) (March 24) A challenge to a lower courts decision to strike down a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Oklahoma v. Two of those three cases EPA v.

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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

But in response to legal challenges, Congress amended the law in 2022 to give the FTC the power to make changes to the authoritys rules. A group of states brought suit in a federal district court in Kentucky, challenging the constitutionality of the HISA and its funding mechanism. The en banc 4th Circuit upheld the law.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition , where she sided with Chief Justice John Roberts and the Courts liberal bloc to reject former President Donald Trumps attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid, has ignited a firestorm of criticism from the MAGA movement and right-wing commentators. In Becerra v. Texas (2021) and Ohio v.

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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. The justices refused earlier this year to take up petitions seeking review of decisions rejecting similar challenges.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

note : Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson to the pages of Above the Law. Oklahomas top law enforcement official, a Republican, agreed with Glossips defense team that he did not receive a fair trial for a 1997 killing and should get another chance to go before a jury. Law Firm Following Court Approval.

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