Briefs and rulings from courthouses across the land.
A federal court in Oklahoma ruled in favor of law enforcement in an excessive force dispute stemming from an encounter with a reportedly suicidal woman who had locked herself in a store with a loaded gun. Officers shot the woman seven times as they attempted to enter her business.
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Taking up a challenge by a Seminole Indian convicted of rape in Oklahoma, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the state wrongly assumed criminal jurisdiction over Indian country.
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The Oklahoma judge that awarded the state $572 million from Johnson & Johnson in the first opioid crisis lawsuit to go to trial formally reduced his damages award by $107 million Friday, admitting to a three-digit calculation error.
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A small-town Oklahoma policeman was charged with killing his chief after what authorities described as an alcohol-fueled brawl in a Florida Panhandle hotel room.
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An abortion rights group sued Oklahoma Friday to expand access to medication abortions in the state, seeking to block a law requiring a doctor be physically present to give abortion pills and a separate law banning advanced practice registered nurses from performing the procedure.
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More than 450 inmates walked out the doors of Oklahoma prisons on Monday in what state officials said is the largest single-day mass commutation in U.S. history.
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a controversial law outlawing a second-trimester abortion procedure that critics call cruel dismemberment of a fetus but advocates say is the safest and most common method after about three months of pregnancy.
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A federal judge refused to dismiss a mother’s claim against Bixby, Oklahoma and its police officer who shot her unarmed 16-year-old son to death after he dismounted from an SUV that had mistakenly been reported as stolen.
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