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Along with Texas, Oklahoma is one of two states to have two courts of last resort; the Oklahoma Supreme Court decides only civil cases, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals decides criminal cases. The Oklahoma Supreme Court has only immediate jurisdiction with respect to new first-impression issues, important legal issues, and cases of ...
The court set 10 a.m. April 2 to hear the arguments during an en banc hearing in the Supreme Court’s courtroom at the state Capitol. According to the filing, each side will have 30 minutes to ...
The state’s high court heard oral arguments in a first-of-its-kind reparations development for those harmed by the 1921 race massacre. […] The post Oklahoma Supreme Court has ‘power to open ...
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 ...
“The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision will have a big impact on (those claims).” Sechler said he expects the state Supreme Court’s ruling “fairly imminently.”
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.
Supporters and opponents of an initiative petition to raise the state's minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 locked horns in front of the nine-member Oklahoma Supreme Court this week during an en banc ...
The court was established when Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, and was initially composed of five justices, with the state divided into a corresponding number of judicial districts. [1] In 1917, the court was expanded to nine justices, with the judicial districts being redrawn accordingly, and with the seats for the fourth and fives ...