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to be “paid back”) out of any recovery, and then to take some hefty percentage—often 60% or more of whatever is remaining, particularly in litigations deemed high-risk (like patent litigation), though there are no rules governing how much funders can ask for. (It 24] At the Federal level, the U.S. 2] See generally U.S.

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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. European Court of Human Rights). Zepeda , No.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for his role in the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese, should get a new trial. Prosecutors have never contended that Glossip himself killed Van Treese, who owned the Oklahoma City motel where he worked.

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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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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a potential replacement for the now-dismissed Servotronics Inc. Oklahoma should apply retroactively, and whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates a website designer’s First Amendment rights. In last year’s McGirt v.

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MARCH 20, 2025

And because the resolution of that case may have broader implications for states ability to regulate the speech of professionals, the court is now holding two twice-relisted cases that raise First Amendment challenges to state occupational licensing laws. Oklahoma , which the court had decided to review and was then in the briefing process.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a direct challenge to the court’s ruling in McGirt v. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in McGirt v. Now, Oklahoma alleges in Oklahoma v.

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JUNE 19, 2021

Madrid , the Supreme Court ruled that the application of physical force by police officers, with the intent to restrain, is a “seizure” for Fourth Amendment purposes, even if the suspect does not submit and is not subdued. City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v. Three months ago in Torres v. United States. United States. 20-1709.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

After a dispute over the trademarks for remote controls used to operate heavy construction equipment, a jury awarded Oklahoma-based Hetronic International, Inc. In April, the court called for the views of the solicitor general , and her brief arrived in latish September. Hetronic International, Inc. trademarks.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The school district ordered Kennedy to stop praying so that the district did not violate the Constitution’s establishment clause, which prohibits the government from favoring one religion over another. Alito wrote that Kennedy’s free-speech claim raised important issues, and he suggested the case may warrant review in the future.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

To obtain a conviction, is it enough for the government to show that a doctor’s prescribing practices departed from objective standards of medical care? Or must the government also prove that the doctor subjectively understood that the prescriptions at issue served no genuine medical purpose?

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JURIST

AUGUST 3, 2022

Anti-abortion advocates hoped to amend the state constitution to stipulate that “the constitution of the state of Kansas does not require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion.” In 2019 the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in Hodes & Nauser v.

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APRIL 8, 2025

A group of faith leaders, education advocates and parents filed an amicus brief Monday, urging the US Supreme Court to block Oklahoma’s first religious public school. Oklahoma is proposing the opening of St. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in June of 2024 that the creation of St.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

The states urged the justices to stay out of the dispute and to allow the lower courts’ rulings to stand. Louisiana and the other challengers in that case pushed back against the Biden administration’s suggestion that the lower court’s order sweeps too broadly because it puts the whole rule on hold.

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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. But the states attorney general counters that a ruling in favor of the Catholic school could upend the charter-school system nationwide. The state supreme court granted that request.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Either or both cases could return to the Supreme Court once the federal appeals courts rule on the merits of the dispute. Nebraska , a divided court ruled that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority when it announced the debt relief program, which relied on the HEROES Act, a law passed in the wake of the Sept.

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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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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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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 14, 2022

Yellen addresses the Constitution’s allocation of taxing authority between the federal and state governments. Oklahoma applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was decided. The 2017 cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes. New York v. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). Issue : Whether McGirt v.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

On the other hand, challenges to the EPA’s approval or issuance of any implementation plan, as well as any other final action by the EPA that is “locally or regionally applicable,” can only be filed in the local or regional court of appeals. In Oklahoma v. EPA and PacifiCorp v. In Brinkmann v. Town of Southold, N.Y. ,

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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. Relisted after the Jan.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

If the justices decide to take up any of these cases, the government will presumably be represented in its briefs and at oral argument at the Supreme Court by Trumps pick for solicitor general, John Sauer. Student-loan forgiveness Another 5th Circuit ruling led to the governments petition in Department of Education v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A federal district court ruled that emails sent by Eastman, who in August was indicted in Georgia along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others on charges that they conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, should be turned over under the “crime-fraud” exception to the protection for attorney-client communications.

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MAY 24, 2024

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit to lift those orders while they appealed. The court of appeals refused, instead expediting argument. By a split vote, the 6th Circuit then reversed the lower courts’ rulings , concluding that the states were likely to win their appeals. The court thus allowed the laws go into effect.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

The court dealt with a set of similar cases out of Idaho in June without reaching a conclusive decision on the federal law. The court’s denial on Monday leaves in place a lower court ruling for Texas, but the question at the center of the case remains unresolved nationally. Mulready v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The justices invited Acting Solicitor General Brian Fletcher to file briefs expressing the federal government’s views in three cases. Intratek Computer , the government will weigh in on the effect of a federal whistleblower statute on an arbitration agreement between an employer and its employee. In Robertson v.

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