Criminal Law Government Oklahoma 
JURIST
JUNE 29, 2022
The US Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that the state of Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native Americans who commit crimes against Native Americans on tribal territory. Castro-Huerta appealed the ruling to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which vacated his conviction as a result of McGirt.
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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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 28, 2022
Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. Oklahoma v. Oklahoma , which reaffirmed that the reservation of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation within Oklahoma remains “Indian country.”
The Crime Report
JUNE 30, 2022
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native Americans in Indian Country, countering a previous 2020 decision recognizing nearly half of the state as a reservation, reports the Wall Street Journal. That authority belongs to the federal government and, typically for more minor offenses, tribal courts.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act. Kimberly responded that there are two easy fixes, both of which, he asserted, respect tribal sovereignty.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Sylvia Gonzalez, a newly elected Texas city council member elected on an anti-corruption platform was arrested after her first meeting for “intentionally … conceal[ing] … a government record,” for allegedly taking a petition her supporters had presented to the mayor seeking the removal of a city manager. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
SCOTUSBlog
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.
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