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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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 14, 2024

1988 ; and (2) whether a party must obtain an enduring change in the parties’ legal relationship from a judicial act, as opposed to a non-judicial event that moots the case, to prevail under Section 1988.” Oklahoma: The death penalty case has the support of Oklahoma’s attorney general who agrees that Gossip should be granted a new trial.

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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

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. But the outcome could also have longer-term consequences for how, and from whom, Alaskan Natives receive essential services. First, some background. Just as, in McGirt v.

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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Wade, o pponents of abortion are pushing for stricter bans at state levels—even criminalizing women who travel outside their states where abortion remains legal. Oklahoma also had a 2019 trigger law on the books, effective Aug 26. Law: Oklahoma SB612 (and others). Jackson Women’s Health effectively overturned Roe v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If that language continues to be upheld on appeal, the SIFMA decisions foreshadows the strength of ERISA’s protections for fiduciary autonomy in making sound investment decisions, so long as plan fiduciaries are steadfast in their commitment to their legally mandated duties. The law had resulted in a 15.7%

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

With this holding, the Dobbs majority deepened state-by-state health inequities by upending a 50-year understanding that the 14th Amendment protects a right to privacy that includes access to abortion, among other intimate decisions. Hellerstedt. Some states, like California, pay for low-income patients’ care.

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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. Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

CNN noted that prominent legal figures like Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society have argued that the criticism is an overreaction to a procedural ruling, not a substantive one. Tsarnaev (2022), Barrett criticized judicial overreach, questioning appellate courts supervisory power. Similarly, in George v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. after a court decision made it the first Big Four accounting firm eligible to practice law in the country. Highlights from Last Week – Top Ten Eighteen (!)

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