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McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a landmark [1] [2] United States Supreme Court case which held that the domain reserved for the Muscogee Nation by Congress in the 19th century has never been disestablished and constitutes Indian country for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act, meaning that the State of Oklahoma has no right to prosecute American Indians for crimes allegedly ...
Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, 597 U.S. 629 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case related to McGirt v. Oklahoma, decided in 2020.In McGirt, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress never properly disestablished the Indian reservations of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma when granting its statehood, and thus almost half the state was still considered to be Native American land.
Wednesday’s decision had been widely expected to affirm the Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling, which had backed the authority of tribal nations in eastern Oklahoma. That ruling, in 2020, found ...
McGirt, who did not contest his guilt in the case before the justices, had appealed a 2019 ruling by a state appeals court in favor of Oklahoma. McGirt is a member of the Seminole Nation.
Oklahoma tribes need more money from Congress to expand and maintain their criminal justice systems almost four years after the McGirt v. Oklahoma ruling, representatives of the Cherokee and ...
Oct. 30—The Cherokee Nation filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in response to the state of Oklahoma and other government bodies attempting to overturn the McGirt decision. The ...
Apr. 1—The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals announced a decision Thursday in a case originating in Pittsburg County, ruling the U.S. Supreme Court's analysis in McGirt v. Oklahoma applies to ...
Sep. 28—Prosecutors recently explained how the U.S. Supreme Court's McGirt v. Oklahoma ruling has affected deferred cases. More than 200 deferred sentencing cases were logged in Cherokee County ...