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12 May 2023, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
  Toobin aims to show that the kind of crazed animosity against the national government--and the legitimation of violence as a means of resisting what its adherents call "tyranny"—directly links McVeigh, executed for the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people in 1995, and the January 6, 2021 attempted takeover of the Capitol as part of an effort to overturn the election of Joe Biden. [read post]
5 May 2023, 12:30 pm by John Ross
 They're not just avoiding a mild swear, but invoking a doctrine that prevents civil-rights plaintiffs from bringing claims that would call into question the validity of their sentence. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 11:22 pm by Florian Mueller
They're suing for the sake of suing. as I've said in a couple of previous posts, and their calculus may be that a defeat would be useful. [read post]
25 Mar 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Federal Election Commission Slapped Marathon Petroleum Corporation with a $85,000 Fine After It Illegally Contributed $1 Million to 2 Republican PACs Yahoo News – Bryan Metzger (Business Insider) | Published: 3/18/2022 The FEC levied a $85,000 fine against Marathon Petroleum Company after it illegally contributed $1 million to a pair of PACs supporting House and Senate Republicans’ re-election campaigns. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 9:15 am by Taylor Pendergrass
Nowhere was that reality more present on election night than in Oklahoma, where a left-right coalition including the ACLU suffered a stinging defeat on a bold sentencing reform ballot initiative. [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 11:38 am by David Cole
  Protecting the right to tell jurors the truth about their rights. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Ex-McConnell Staffers Lobbied on Russian-Backed Kentucky Project Politico – Natasha Bertrand and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 7/31/2019 Two former top staffers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have lobbied Congress and the Treasury Department on the development of a new Kentucky aluminum mill backed by the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, according to a new lobbying disclosure. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 9:18 am by John Floyd
”   30 Years in Prison Before Exonerated   Finally, there was 49-year-old Corey Atchison, an Oklahoma inmate who spent nearly 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit before being exonerated. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 8:46 am by John Elwood
If you’re reading a blog post that is entirely devoted to cases on the Supreme Court’s docket that haven’t even been granted yet, chances are you’re a law nerd. [read post]
18 May 2018, 8:02 am by John Elwood
  He was convicted in Oklahoma state court and sentenced to death for killing another nation member within the nation’s historic territory in eastern Oklahoma. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 7:43 am by John Elwood
Oklahoma, 15-9173, won a per curiam reversal, in which the court held that the Oklahoma Supreme Court was wrong to declare that Payne v. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 8:36 am by John Elwood
I love you John but it’s the truth. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 2:56 am by Kevin LaCroix
  In 2015, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division – First Department, was faced with two matters, both of which addressed whether bonds issued to entities formed for the purposes of investing and trading in securities, covered losses the entities sustained by investing in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.[7]  In 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies and was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum allowed. [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 5:08 pm by Kevin LaCroix
(Indeed, the Oklahoma legislature has adopted a provision mandating the shifting of fees in derivative suits.) [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 11:41 am
” They then tortured him for several days, and said they would “carry out his death sentence resulting from his conversion from Islam. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 12:14 pm
  She informs us that Oklahoma has re-enacted at least part of the tort reform legislation (see here for our previous discussion), that the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down on technical (single subject) grounds in Douglas v. [read post]