SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Antiabortion activists at Supreme Court cite an unlikely authority for overturning Roe v. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

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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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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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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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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

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Second, the court concluded that BLM should have calculated and considered total greenhouse emissions, instead of merely relying on comparisons of yearly emission rates.

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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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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The US Supreme Court will hear arguments from two Arizona death row inmates in a case that could have devastating consequences for prisoners attempting to prove their innocence before execution, reports The Guardian. Meanwhile, USA Today reports that a landmark Supreme Court decision last year in McGirt v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is hitting its stride in sorting through the relists. The court also agreed to take up a twice-relisted challenge to Colorados ban on conversion therapy.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2024

The US Supreme Court announced Monday it will review the legality of state efforts to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors — a contentious issue in a nation deeply divided over transgender rights and the role of medical intervention in youth gender identity. In November, the plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court.

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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 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. The lower courts quickly allowed Texas to act under those provisions to subject tribal operations to the full range of its regulations.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Supreme Court returns to the bench on October 7, 2024. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Royal Canin U.S.A., The specific issue before the Court is: “Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 4 2 U.S.C. 1983 in state court.” 1983 in state court.”

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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

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument on that question in Yellen v. Oklahoma last term, the court confronted the complex past of Oklahoma’s Native nations, Chehalis turns on the unique legal history of Alaskan Natives. A federal district court in D.C. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave Brenda Evers Andrew another chance to challenge her death sentence and conviction for the murder of her estranged husband. The court issued an unsigned 10-page opinion vacating a ruling by the U.S. That was wrong, the court concluded.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. At this Friday’s conference, the Supreme Court will vote to grant the last cases that will be argued this term (barring expedited briefing on some emergency matter). The court earlier asked for the U.S.

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Above The Law

MAY 22, 2025

Oklahoma tried to push the envelope by starting a religious public charter school. In a surprising 4-4 vote, the Supreme Court didn’t allow Oklahoma to step on whatever ragged bits of the separation clause remain. Given Carson , doing so seemed colorably fair game.

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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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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. The case could produce one of the most consequential decisions on the separation of Church and State in decades.

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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. The Oklahoma law governing charter schools requires them to be non-religious in their programs, admissions policies, and other operations. The state supreme court granted that request.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2025

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Drummond (Ian Millhiser, Vox) The Major Supreme Court Decisions to Watch This Summer (Laura Mannweiler, U.S. News & World Report) The post The morning read for Friday, May 23 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. So at the last conference, the Supreme Court acted on a ton of relists. White , the court summarily vacated a decision by the U.S. A short explanation of relists is available here. California.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Investors who want the flexibility to consider all relevant risks to their investments have challenged these rules and laws in court, and, in both state and federal cases, the effort has succeeded. The federal court ruled resoundingly in favor of SIFMA, finding for plaintiffs on all counts.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 30, 2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a Catholic virtual charter schools bid to become the countrys first religious charter school. 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. Comer , Carson v.

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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

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Courts upcoming conference the second January conference — is ordinarily the justices last opportunity to add new cases to the docket in time for them to review and decide the disputes by the summer recess.

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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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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, once celebrated as a stalwart conservative and a crowning achievement of the Trump presidency, now finds herself under fire from the very base that championed her confirmation. Her recent vote in Department of State v. Lets unpack the data.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2025

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. 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.

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JURIST

MAY 21, 2025

Oklahoma District Court Judge Bernard Jones granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, temporarily blocking HB 4156 from allowing the criminalization of noncitizens’ irregular entry and unauthorized stay in Oklahoma. The defendants are Attorney General Gentner Drummond, among other Oklahoma state officials.

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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. Read more here.

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