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Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond (Docket 24-394), consolidated with St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, v. Drummond (Docket 24-396) is a pending United States Supreme Court case dealing with the separation of church and state within the Establishment Clause. The case deals with the establishment of a nonsecular ...
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.
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988), was the first case since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in the United States in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a minor on grounds of "cruel and unusual punishment." [1] The holding in Thompson was expanded on by Roper v.
Glossip's case was argued before the Supreme Court on October 9, 2024. Due to his prior involvement in the case, including Glossip v. Gross , as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit , Justice Gorsuch is recused from the case's proceedings.
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 ...
Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required the state to provide a psychiatric evaluation to be used on behalf of an indigent criminal defendant if he needed it. [1] [2]
Purcell, Oklahoma Kevin Ray Underwood (December 19, 1979 – December 19, 2024) was an American convicted murderer from Purcell, Oklahoma , who was executed for the murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin.
Chandler is a United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma case in which the plaintiffs challenged the State of Oklahoma's execution protocol. The initial lawsuit, Glossip v. Gross , rose to the United States Supreme Court in 2015 at the preliminary injunction stage and involved an earlier version of Oklahoma's lethal ...