SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here’s the Monday morning read: Antiabortion activists at Supreme Court cite an unlikely authority for overturning Roe v. Oklahoma attorney general urges Supreme Court to overturn McGirt (Chris Casteel, The Oklahoman). Supreme Court decision could set off gerrymandering ‘arms race’ (John Kruzel, The Hill).

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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 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

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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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

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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