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APRIL 27, 2021

“‘A nightmare’: Supreme Court ruling upends Oklahoma prosecutions of American Indians.” ” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

judiciary seeks more Oklahoma judges after Supreme Court ruling”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report. Courts today issued a news release titled “ Judiciary Supplements Judgeship Request, Prioritizes Courthouse Projects.” “U.S. And the Administrative Office of the U.S.

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JULY 24, 2021

“‘Complete, dysfunctional chaos’: Oklahoma reels after Supreme Court ruling on Indian tribes.” ” Annie Gowen and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post have this report.

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MARCH 12, 2021

“A convicted Oklahoma killer’s death sentence was overturned because of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling”: Dakin Andone of CNN has this report. My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rulings can be accessed here.

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MAY 27, 2021

“Supreme Court May Revisit Ruling on Native American Rights in Oklahoma; After the court ruled last year that much of eastern Oklahoma is an Indian reservation, a state court threw out a conviction of a death row inmate”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

“Tribes’ Victory in Oklahoma at Risk in Bold Request to the Supreme Court; Last year, the court ruled 5 to 4 that much of the state is an Indian reservation.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“10 death row inmates in Oklahoma could get new trials”: Sean Murphy of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “As many as 10 death row inmates in Oklahoma, more than one-fifth of the state’s prisoners condemned to die, could escape execution because of a recent U.S.

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JUNE 29, 2022

“Supreme Court Narrows Ruling for Tribes in Oklahoma; The decision followed a landmark 2020 ruling that said much of eastern Oklahoma falls within Indian reservation lands, limiting the authority of state prosecutors”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

“McGirt decision not retroactive, appeals court rules”: Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report on a ruling that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued today.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 25, 2024

A contract providing for state funding of an online Catholic charter school violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause, the Oklahoma Constitution and a state law…

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JUNE 3, 2023

A Supreme Court ruling barred Oklahoma from prosecuting crimes committed by Native Americans on tribal land, but some Black tribal members are still being prosecuted because they lack ‘Indian blood.'” “Two Black Members of Native Tribes Were Arrested. The Law Sees Only One as Indian.

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MARCH 11, 2021

“Court ruling means hundreds of state criminal cases will be shifted to tribal or federal courts”: Samantha Vicent and Curtis Killman of The Tulsa World have this report. Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman reports that “ Oklahoma court says Cherokee, Chickasaw reservations still exist.”

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AUGUST 13, 2021

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that conviction appeals related to the recent U.S. Parish, an indigenous man accused of committing the killing on Choctaw Reservation land, had been convicted in state court by a jury of second-degree murder in March 2012 and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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APRIL 7, 2021

“Oklahoma Gov. Stitt says dangerous criminals walking free thanks to ‘horribly wrong’ Supreme Court ruling; ‘The murderers and criminals being let loose is the biggest thing that’s happening in our state,’ Gov. Stitt tells Fox News”: Houston Keene of Fox News has this report.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

“Supreme Court Grants New Trial to Death Row Inmate in Oklahoma; Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. .” ” David G.

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JUNE 25, 2024

“Oklahoma Supreme Court Says No to State Funding for a Religious Charter School; In a closely watched case, Oklahoma’s highest court blocked what was set to become the nation’s first religious charter school; An appeal is likely”: Sarah Mervosh of The New York Times has this report. constitution.”

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AUGUST 4, 2021

“Federal Murder Trial Begins For Man At Center Of Supreme Court Ruling On Tribal Jurisdiction”: Amelia Mugavero of News on 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma has this report.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After a favorable ruling in state court, Oklahoma’s attorney general is withdrawing a cert petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn or limit a…

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Share Less than two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v. Although Castro-Huerta is not a Native American, his stepdaughter is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals vacated his conviction because the crime occurred in Indian country.

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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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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

judiciary seeks more Oklahoma judges after Supreme Court ruling (Nate Raymond, Reuters). The Marble Palace Blog: How the SCOTUS Long Conference Started + Did Scalia Really Watch RBG Parasail? Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal). Senator Durbin Shadowboxes with Shadow Docket (Ed Whelan, National Review).

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that bars the city of Tulsa from enforcing municipal ordinances against Native Americans. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on hold to give the city time to appeal. But two years later, the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma Inc. asked the Tenth Circuit to reconsider whether it's entitled to business interruption coverage for pandemic losses, saying an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling will help clarify key coverage issues.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

But Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, representing the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, has filed an unusual friend of the court brief opposing relief, arguing that the case is fact-bound, procedurally flawed, and Texas-law-focused.

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JUNE 2, 2021

. “Non-Indians…have had this expectation that they can go onto tribal lands and commit crimes with impunity, because the tribe won’t have criminal jurisdiction to prosecute them,” said Nagle, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

At least 75 of the lethal injection executed were terribly botched —most notably in Oklahoma and Alabama. . In 2014, Oklahoma tried unsuccessfully for 20 minutes to kill Clayton Lockett by lethal injection as he struggled in pain before dying of a heart attack in the death chamber some 43 minutes after the execution protocol got underway.

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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.

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JUNE 22, 2021

In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot prohibit its member schools from providing athletes with certain forms of education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, or free laptops or musical instruments.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Supreme Court rulings related to capital punishment. The ruling makes Simmons eligible for up to $175,000 in compensation from the state for wrongful conviction and opens the door for a federal lawsuit against Oklahoma City and law enforcement involved in his arrest and conviction.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

ASEA filed counterclaims asking the court to enjoin Alaska from implementing the governor’s administrative order and from making any changes to the dues-deduction processes that were in place before the opinion was issued. relisted after the Sept. 17 and Dec. 8 conferences; rescheduled before the Dec. 1 conference) Glossip v. 17 and Dec.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Kimberly if there was an “easy fix” for the tribe and the federal government to avoid double jeopardy problems in future cases in the event that the Supreme Court rules in favor of Denezpi. Kimberly responded that there are two easy fixes, both of which, he asserted, respect tribal sovereignty.

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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. Hetronic International, Inc. involves the international reach of the Lanham Act, which provides civil remedies for infringement of U.S. trademarks.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. Some, as noted above, have even banned the practice at common law, though state courts have increasingly relaxed those rules in favor of regulation. [23]

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2021

What was most striking in the Alston case was the open skepticism over the role of the NCAA in comparison to the last major review from the Court. In 1984 in NCAA v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In Oklahoma, a doctor who initially pleaded guilty to unlawfully distributing opioid pills and fentanyl patches got a judge’s permission to withdraw his guilty plea after Ruan. The post The <em>other</em> Supreme Court ruling with big repercussions for U.S. This column was originally published on Oct.

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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

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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