JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Oklahoma Supreme Court reversed Tuesday a $465 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for public nuisance through its prescription opioid marketing campaign in the state. This plan appropriated money to 21 government programs to combat opioid abuse statewide.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 24, 2025

“Supreme Court to Hear Oklahoma Religious Charter School Case; The proposal to create the nations first religious charter school paid for by taxpayer funds could move the line between church and state in education”: Troy Closson of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. ” David G.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

In a brief unsigned order , the justices agreed to review a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that rejected an effort by a Catholic online school to become the nations first religious charter school. In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Isidore into an arm of the government: It reasoned that excluding St.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Friday vacated a previous ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Oklahoma-based Muscogee (Creek) Nation, who challenged the construction of a casino in Alabama on land they claim is sacred.

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SCOTUSBlog

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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Share Eight years after the Supreme Court blocked his execution so that it could consider a challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol, the justices agreed on Monday to take up the case of Richard Glossip , who is seeking to set aside his conviction and death sentence.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2022

The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta , a case concerning the court’s 2020 decision that removed Oklahoma’s jurisdiction over many crimes in large parts of the state that remain classified as reservations. . ” A decision is expected by the court by mid-June.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2024

US Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond submitted an appeal to the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday. The preliminary injunction , which was issued last month, prevented Oklahoma from enforcing the bill. However, critics of the Bill argue that it promotes racial profiling.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 26, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a request by Oklahoma to allow the state to retain custody of a death-row inmate while the court considers whether to clarify the implications of last year’s decision holding that Oklahoma lacks jurisdiction over certain crimes committed on land reserved for Native Americans.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Braidwood Management (April 21) A challenge to the Affordable Care Acts requirement that health insurers provide coverage for medications that can be highly effective at preventing HIV infection, on the ground that the government task force that makes recommendations for preventive medical services violates the Constitutions appointments clause.

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JURIST

JUNE 19, 2024

The court in Van Orden held that the Establishment Clause under the First Amendment did not prohibit all forms of government legislation or action that had a religious intent or context. American Humanists Association , and the 2005 case Van Orden v. On Wednesday morning, the bill was signed into law during a press conference on education.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hey, 1L thinking about Health Law reform, this is for you!

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

.” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said Google has “prioritized profit over their users’ privacy” for years and warned that “companies will continue to compile large amounts of our personal data for marketing purposes with few controls” until government bodies introduce comprehensive privacy laws.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Oklahoma , a confrontation clause question involving statements about possible future crimes, and a split over the scope of who is covered by the qualified immunity doctrine. Oklahoma that the eastern half of Oklahoma (nearly 43% of the state) qualifies as “Indian country” for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Last month, an Oklahoma cannabis businessman was found guilty of money laundering in connection with a charge of misrepresenting his company as a “wellness and fitness” firm in order to be able to process his earnings through a bank account. According to the Post, Oklahoma “has the most marijuana patients per capita in the nation.”.

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2023

The looming execution of Richard Glossip in Oklahoma, now scheduled for May 18, shows us where things stand in criminal justice. The Finality of Error Justin Sneed brutally killed Barry Van Treese with a baseball bat in the Best Budget Motel in Oklahoma City on January 7, 1997.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Don't be like Oklahoma. The post The Gold Star Standard For Election Day appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Oklahoma by a vote of 5-4 that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma, which was reserved for the Creek Nation in the 19th century, remains a reservation for purposes of a federal law that gives the federal government sole power to try certain major crimes committed by “any Indian” in “Indian country.”

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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.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Last up: Looks like Oklahoma will have to update its environmental impact statement for its blizzard of petitions seeking to overrule the Supreme Court’s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma holding that eastern Oklahoma remains a Native American reservation, because there is yet another relisted case raising the issue: Oklahoma v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma has reached a $75 million opioid settlement with AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson, three of the nation’s largest drug distributors that shipped vast quantities of highly addictive pain pills over the past 20 years, in the first deal of its kind with a tribal government in the country, reports NPR.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

But the court denied review last week in a case that sought to invalidate the burden-shifting framework that has long governed employment discrimination cases. Oklahoma , which the court had decided to review and was then in the briefing process. Relisted after the May 30, 2024 and Mar. 7, 2025 conferences.)

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Oklahoma that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma remains an Indian reservation, so that state and local governments cannot prosecute Native Americans who commit crimes on the reservation. Hooper paid the $150 fine. But two years later, the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As Senior Fellow Amy Turner documented last year , a number of local governments around the country have moved to prohibit natural gas hookups in buildings. However, some state governments have blocked those local measures, preventing municipalities from enacting natural gas bans.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

states, such as Turkey, Thailand, Rwanda, and Russia, have authoritarian governments or have recently experienced large-scale internal armed conflicts,” PPI said. It was followed, respectively, by Mississippi, Oklahoma (which was the world’s top jailer last year), Georgia, and Arkansas. The world’s top jailer in 2021 was Louisiana.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Government, despite their origins. “In The experts filing argued that ultimately, CFR courts are functionally tribal courts, just tribal courts that receive funding and operational support from the federal government. Justices heard arguments in Oklahoma v. In May, Amnesty International called on the U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma , the court held that the NCAA could, in the interest of preserving the character and quality of college sports, impose restrictions upon players that would otherwise breach antitrust laws. The court consolidated the cases National Collegiate Athletic Association v.

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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

JUNE 19, 2021

City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v. During the trial, immediately prior to the close of evidence, the government introduced testimony that Pon fraudulently billed for 52 procedures on a single patient. These and other petitions of the week are below: City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma v. United States. United States. 20-1709.

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The Crime Report

JULY 16, 2021

Working with pro bono lawyers and filing a class action lawsuit against the government, Brown and Rolin recovered the money six months later, reports The Washington Post. In America, no one like Terry Rolin or his daughter should have to battle the government to get back their hard-earned property.”.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

Every day we hear another horror story of a business or government entity being hit with ransomware. Julie Bays (@juliebays) is the Practice Management Advisor for the Oklahoma Bar Association. Bays is also involved with the Access to Justice initiatives of the OBA such as Oklahoma Free Legal Answers. .

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2021

They allege that the regulation violates the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits the government from taking property without “just compensation.” Because they did not agree to any such easement, they further alleged that they should receive compensation.

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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.

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Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2024

Tulsa, Oklahoma-based natural gas company Williams has hired the former undersecretary for Minority Business Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce to lead the company's government affairs and outreach teams, the company announced Thursday.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Tenth Circuit followed the trend of other federal appeals courts Tuesday when it upheld a Tokio Marine unit's win in a policyholder's Oklahoma federal lawsuit seeking to recover business interruption losses caused by government shutdown orders intended to stop the spread of COVID-19.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Until 2020, the industry was governed primarily by the states, which employed a patchwork of varying regulations. No longer the only horseracing regulators in town, a group of states, led by Oklahoma, and their racing commissions went to federal court in Kentucky. In Oklahoma v. Oklahoma v.

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