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. This decision clarifies the 2020 McGirt v.

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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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HowAppealing

MAY 1, 2025

“Supreme Court majority seems open to religious public charter schools; Liberal justices were opposed to government sponsorship of religious schools, but there was support among conservatives”: Justin Jouvenal, Ann E. Marimow, and Laura Meckler of The Washington Post have this report.

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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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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

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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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2024

The hearing included testimony from the attorney generals of Montana, Oklahoma and Missouri—states led by Republican governors—who said they have dealt with impacts from Mayorkas’s policies, even though none of them neighbor Mexico. Attorney General Montana Austin Knudsen noted there had been a devastating fentanyl crisis in Montana.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2024

” Kelly went on to state that: This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans by placing government mandates on them and dictating to parents how to best raise and care for their children. And, yet, that is exactly what this legislation does.”

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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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JURIST

MAY 25, 2024

This poses a problem as our country moves further into the twenty-first century and some people question whether the Constitution is well-suited for modern governance. Delegates representing Oklahoma, Wyoming, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, and more came together to say: democracy is for everyone.

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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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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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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

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

AUGUST 19, 2021

Giving a jury the power to reject sentences it considers too severe could “reinject a democratic voice” into the American system of justice and counter the overuse of plea bargaining, argues a University of Oklahoma law professor. If government officials implemented jury vetoes without careful planning, “much could go wrong,” he wrote.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 18, 2024

Two of those states, Oklahoma and Utah, went to their regional circuit, the U.S. The court of appeals rejected Oklahoma and Utah’s argument that their challenges should remain in the 10th Circuit because each centers on the EPA’s denial of approval for their individual proposed plans, which in turn rested on facts specific to their states.

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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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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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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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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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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 4, 2024

The companies argue that, under the Supreme Court’s precedents, federal common law necessarily and exclusively governs claims seeking redress for injuries allegedly caused by interstate emissions. Among other grounds, the companies contended that Minnesota’s claims necessarily and exclusively arise under federal common law. 17 and Dec.

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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.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But the EPA merely indicated, Kavanaugh emphasized, that even if the plan did not apply to some states, it could still be implemented for the remaining states, without providing the kind of explanation about how the revised plan would work that the federal laws governing administrative agencies require.

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