SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. Oklahoma v. Oklahoma , which reaffirmed that the reservation of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation within Oklahoma remains “Indian country.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma cases as a single case — that I have to be extremely summary. The case also presents the question whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Employment Division v. The state has designated Oklahoma v. It’s like the long conference in January.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Michael Kimberly, arguing for Denezpi, opened by stating that the law-making and law-enforcing aspects of sovereignty are equally important to determining whether expressions of sovereign power are separate. Justice Samuel Alito, in a series of questions reminiscent of concerns he raised in oral argument in McGirt v.

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