Briefs and rulings from courthouses across the land.
The mother of a man who died after his appendix ruptured while he was incarcerated may pursue her wrongful death, negligence and other claims against the former director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and other corrections department employees, a federal court in Oklahoma ruled. The suit alleges the man “suffered days of prolonged pain” due to a delay in medical treatment.
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A widower sued Oklahoma City for the wrongful deaths of his wife, 89-year-old daughter and dog, who were killed by a police car in an 80-mph chase through downtown Oklahoma City at rush hour, involving someone else’s minor traffic violation, in Oklahoma County Court.
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Oklahoma sued the Dove Public Charter School Foundation, its superintendent Ibrahim Sel, et al., in Oklahoma County Court, claiming they illegally obtained and distributed information from the State Student Information System about students who never enrolled in Dove Charter Schools and in whom the defendants had no “legitimate educational interest.”
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A federal court in Oklahoma awarded $4.7 million in damages to a woman who spent months incarcerated on federal drug charges before being found “actually innocent.” A special agent of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives completed a false police report describing a methamphetamine sale that never occurred.
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Oklahoma officials announced Thursday the state has secured a reliable new source of execution drugs and is resuming lethal injection executions after a five-year halt.
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Cody Gregg sued Oklahoma City in Oklahoma County Court, claiming he was jailed for two months for a bogus charge of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, though he said all along, and lab tests proved, that he possessed powdered milk, not cocaine.
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An Oklahoma state judge refused to block two longstanding laws Friday that limit access to abortions by banning advanced practice registered nurses from giving such care and banning doctors from doing so with telemedicine.
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An unusually heavy winter storm dumped inches of snow across parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, closing schools and creating treacherous travel conditions across the region.
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Two suburban Oklahoma City high school students have died after a group of cross-country runners was struck by a pickup truck that police say was driven by man whose son was killed in a traffic crash over the weekend.
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Ninety-seven people sued New Dominion for property damages from “thousands of earthquakes” in central Oklahoma, allegedly caused by its underground injections of wastewater from fracking operations, in Cleveland County Court.
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