223 ABA Journal Oklahoma articles.
The estate of the late recording artist and actor Prince is suing an Englewood, New Jersey-based domain broker for cybersquatting the prince.com website.
Filed last Wednesday in the U.S. District…
Jul 30, 2018 12:45 PM CDT
Probate judges in at least seven Alabama counties refuse to issue marriage licenses to any couples, same-sex or heterosexual, so lawmakers may abolish licenses altogether. Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Montana have similar proposals.
Jul 1, 2018 1:50 AM CDT
May 10, 2018 7:00 AM CDT
A Tulsa adoption lawyer who wants a legislative solution to Oklahoma’s “educational funding nightmare” hopes a brigade of 100 female attorneys can make a difference.
Lawyer Becki Murphy wrote…
Apr 6, 2018 9:33 AM CDT
Oklahoma has always been the nation’s laboratory for capital punishment.
It was a state legislator named Bill Wiseman who in 1977 came up with the idea of lethal injection by…
Mar 16, 2018 2:50 PM CDT
Eight states described as having “a legitimate and substantial interest in preserving and promoting fetal life” have weighed in on a lawsuit seeking to clear the way for immigrant minors…
Jan 9, 2018 4:02 PM CST
Nearly a year ago, Nevada death row inmate Scott Dozier asked to be executed, telling a state court judge he would forego his appeals. A doctor deemed Dozier, who was…
Sep 5, 2017 7:00 AM CDT
The private prisoner transport company whose van was stolen by two inmates last week in Oklahoma — precipitating a national manhunt that remains underway — may be feeling a sense…
Sep 1, 2017 7:00 AM CDT
A white police officer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was acquitted of manslaughter on Wednesday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man last September.
Jurors deliberated more than nine…
May 18, 2017 10:43 AM CDT
Oklahoma has adopted a loser-pays system for attorney fees and costs in civil cases, but not intentionally.
Gov. Mary Fallin recently signed the bill into law, report the Tulsa…
May 18, 2017 7:00 AM CDT An independent commission is recommending that Oklahoma’s moratorium on the death penalty be extended until reforms can address “the volume and seriousness of the flaws” in the state’s capital punishment…
Apr 26, 2017 12:51 PM CDT Caleb Alexander Harlin never attended college, but he has two law degrees and one law license. He now will have the opportunity to obtain a law license in a second…
Mar 30, 2017 8:00 AM CDT A lawyer in Norman, Oklahoma, and his divorce client were shot and killed, apparently by the woman’s estranged husband, authorities said on Wednesday. The victims are lawyer Bryan Young, 47,…
Feb 9, 2017 8:00 AM CST A botched execution that continued for 43 minutes, causing the condemned man to writhe and grimace in pain, didn’t violate clearly established law regarding cruel and unusual punishment, a…
Nov 17, 2016 7:00 AM CST Voters in three states on Tuesday passed ballot initiatives supporting capital punishment. In California, voters rejected a measure to repeal the death penalty and passed a measure that seeks to…
Nov 9, 2016 9:52 AM CSTOklahoma death penalty moratorium should continue until flaws are addressed, commission says
Graduate of two law schools who never attended college may take the bar exam, court rules
Oklahoma lawyer and the woman he represented in a divorce are shot and killed
Inmate’s 43-minute execution didn’t violate clearly established law, 10th Circuit rules
Voters in three states back capital punishment in ballot initiatives
