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Muscogee Creek Nation files lawsuit against Oklahoma city for breaches of tribal sovereignty in traffic enforcement

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The Muscogee (Creek) Nation filed a complaint in US federal court Wednesday against the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, accusing the city of violating tribal sovereignty by writing tickets to tribal members for traffic violations committed within reservation boundaries.

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“Glossip v. Oklahoma: The Story Behind How a Death Row Inmate and the Oklahoma A.G. Concocted a Phantom ‘Brady Violation’ and Got Supreme Court Review (Part I); Glossip alleges that his prosecutors withheld evidence at his murder trial — and the Oklahoma A.G. curiously supports his claim. But the prosecutors didn’t withhold anything. And the victim’s family remains enmeshed in decades of frivolous capital litigation that has now reached the Supreme Court.”

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Oklahoma: The Story Behind How a Death Row Inmate and the Oklahoma A.G. Concocted a Phantom ‘Brady Violation’ and Got Supreme Court Review (Part I); Glossip alleges that his prosecutors withheld evidence at his murder trial — and the Oklahoma A.G. “Glossip v. curiously supports his claim.

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Oklahoma man is put to death after court, in 5-3 vote, reinstates his execution

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Share The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted Oklahoma to carry out its first execution in six years, reversing a lower court that had halted the execution over concerns that the state’s lethal-injection procedure may cause cruel and unusual punishment. 18 execution of Julius Jones. Justice Neil Gorsuch did not participate in the decision.

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Court denies mental incompetency plea in Oklahoma execution case

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Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block the execution of an Oklahoma man with schizophrenia, rejecting a claim from his legal team that he does not understand the reason for his execution. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit when Cole sought relief from that court during earlier litigation.

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April session to feature religious charter school case and challenge to LGBTQ+ books in schools

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United States (April 21) Whether a litigant who files a notice of appeal after the time to do so has expired must file a second notice when the time to appeal is reopened. Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Davis (April 29) Whether a federal court may certify a case as a class action when some of its members have not been injured.

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Justices decline to block execution of Oklahoma man who sought to challenge lethal-injection method

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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request from an Oklahoma death-row inmate to put his execution on hold while questions about the constitutionality of the state’s lethal-injection protocol are resolved. Problems with the Lockett execution and the 2015 execution of Charles Warner led to a six-year moratorium on executions in Oklahoma.

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Justices decline to halt two executions in Oklahoma amid questions about state’s lethal-injection method

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Share On Wednesday afternoon, in the shadow of reports of Justice Stephen Breyer’s forthcoming retirement announcement , the Supreme Court denied an application to postpone the executions of two Oklahoma men. The brief order , with no recorded dissents, cleared the way for Oklahoma to execute one of the men, Donald Grant, at 11 a.m.