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The criminal side of the docket is not what you think

SCOTUSBlog

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Crime is a big seller in movies and television, but the criminal law system itself is far less dramatic and generally fails to hold the public’s attention. What even counts as a “criminal law” case?

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The Real A.C.B.

Above The Law

EPA (2025), Barrett dissented in favor of the EPAs authority to impose receiving water limitations under the Clean Water Act, arguing that such limitations were useful when EPA issues general permits to broad categories of dischargers, and pushing back against the majoritys restrictive interpretation of the statute. Luxshare, Ltd.

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Legalize All Drugs! Reason Versus City Journal

The Volokh Conspiracy

And it is not a refusal to enforce other criminal laws. There is no reason why ending this failed war, which has cost over $1 trillion, requires abandoning laws that protect public order. There's a woman right now in Oklahoma who allegedly made meth in her home, and she's trying to make sure she's not homeless now.

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With historical promises in mind, justices weigh state criminal jurisdiction in Indian country

SCOTUSBlog

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.”

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Argument in double-jeopardy case shines spotlight on prosecutorial issues faced by Native tribes

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Justice Clarence Thomas asked whether CFR courts, if federal rather than tribal, were ultimately Article I courts, potentially raising the issue of their authority to enforce criminal law (but perhaps not raising a double jeopardy issue).

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The long conference’s relists

SCOTUSBlog

Criminal law We are now in the home stretch. Justin Sneed murdered Barry Van Treese, owner of an Oklahoma City motel, in one of the guest rooms. Oklahoma (resulting from Glossip’s fourth and fifth applications to that court for post-conviction relief), Glossip now seeks relief from the Supreme Court.

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Too Clever By Half: Why Public Nuisance is Again at the Heart of a Public Health Debate

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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