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Blockbuster watch: Affirmative action, same-sex weddings, and other big relists

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Oklahoma cases as a single case — that I have to be extremely summary. Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there.

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The long conference’s relists

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The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. Criminal law We are now in the home stretch. Justin Sneed murdered Barry Van Treese, owner of an Oklahoma City motel, in one of the guest rooms. relisted after the Sept.

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Argument in double-jeopardy case shines spotlight on prosecutorial issues faced by Native tribes

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Justice Clarence Thomas asked whether CFR courts, if federal rather than tribal, were ultimately Article I courts, potentially raising the issue of their authority to enforce criminal law (but perhaps not raising a double jeopardy issue).