SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Share A sad story involving child neglect has become the subject of a Supreme Court case — and white-hot political rhetoric — because the crime occurred on the reservation of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the victim (but, crucially, not the defendant) is a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The case, Oklahoma v.

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Mondaq

JULY 1, 2022

Oklahoma is the latest to join states like Florida in placing restrictions on telephonic sales calls in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's decision in.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma , the court held that the NCAA could, in the interest of preserving the character and quality of college sports, impose restrictions upon players that would otherwise breach antitrust laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

As is frequently the case when the court denies review in cases that have been relisted repeatedly, denial occasioned dissent, this time from Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. When the case arrived at the Supreme Court, Escobar argued that his case presents the same question as Glossip v.

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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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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

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. relisted after the Sept.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Oklahoma: The death penalty case has the support of Oklahoma’s attorney general who agrees that Gossip should be granted a new trial. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off New Term With … appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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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. Oklahoma , which recognized a reservation continuing to cover the eastern half of Oklahama.

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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. Immediately at stake in the answer is billions of dollars in federal CARES Act funding. First, some background. Just as, in McGirt v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 17, 2022

The US Court of Appeals this week determined that the FCC’s requirement that broadcasters confirm by searching DOJ and FCC databases that all buyers of program time on their stations are not representatives of foreign governments was beyond the power of the FCC as authorized by Congress.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Oklahoma Federal Court Allowed Landowner to Proceed with NEPA Challenge of Osage Nation Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Northern District of Oklahoma denied non-federal defendants’ motion to dismiss a landowner’s lawsuit claiming that the U.S. Optimus Steel, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers , No.

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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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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

A handful of states — Alabama, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, according to the advocacy group MAP — make it a felony to provide gender-affirming care to youths.

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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

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 Jan. 10 and Jan 17 conferences.)

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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. The lower court ruled that such funding of a religious school is unconstitutional. Here is the lower court decision: St. However, there is a catch. While the lawyers representing St.

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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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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

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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Oklahoma v. Judicial factfinding for restitution Under Apprendi v. New Jersey , [o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. 10 conference.)

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Additionally, travel distance is a known barrier to care that jeopardizes health, which the court recognized in 2016 in Whole Woman’s Health v. People from states with restrictive regimes, like Oklahoma , already are traveling to states that protect access. Hellerstedt.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Some of these states had inactive preexisting laws banning abortion that have returned to effect in the wake of Roe, while others intentional passed “trigger laws” with language enacting their provisions the moment a court decision overturning Roe or an amendment or legislation codifying a state’s right to restrict abortion went into effect.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Missouri Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which blocks former President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan from taking effect. The plaintiffs in the case are the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The loss has already had ramifications in other cases, including in Oklahoma, where state pensioner Don Keenan sued the state over its boycott of financial institutions that allegedly discriminate against the oil and gas industry. In both the Missouri and Oklahoma cases, plaintiffs successfully challenged their state’s anti-ESG rules.

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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. Oklahoma v. Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Oklahoma 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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