Briefs and rulings from courthouses across the land.
Republican state leaders in Oklahoma and Utah are facing scrutiny for spending millions of dollars to purchase malaria drugs promoted by President Trump to treat Covid-19 patients that many other states obtained for free and that doctors warned should not be used without more testing.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asked President Donald Trump Saturday to declare the Covid-19 pandemic an “act of God” to shield the oil and gas industry as it grapples with the dual shocks of collapsed demand and surging supply as U.S. oil futures contracts briefly went negative this week.
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A voting rights group argues in a lawsuit against Oklahoma’s election board that voters should not be required to mail a notarized affidavit along with their absentee ballots.
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Severe weather blew through the South again Thursday, raising the death toll to at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a man whose car was blown off the road and a man who went outside to grab a trash can and was swept away in a flood.
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The Tenth Circuit rejected Oklahoma’s request to reinstate a ban on abortion established in a recent executive order postponing elective surgeries and certain other medical procedures. The state says the order is necessary to preserve personal protective equipment for health care workers treating Covid-19 patients.
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Bowing to public pressure, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issued commutations late Friday for 452 inmates to blunt the spread of Covid-19 in state prisons and to ease overcrowding.
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President Donald Trump joked late Wednesday that he would “take a look” at pardoning Joe Exotic, the flamboyant star of Netflix’s true-crime docuseries “Tiger King,” hours after the federal judge in Exotic’s $94 million lawsuit against federal officials rejected a recusal demand.
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“Tiger King” docuseries star Joe Exotic demanded Monday that the federal judge overseeing his $93 million civil lawsuit against the federal government step aside, accusing him of being biased, homophobic and an animal rights supporter.
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A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Monday that state officials cannot use the Covid-19 pandemic to effectively ban most abortions, clearing the way for medication abortions to resume as well as procedures for women who would lose their right to a lawful abortion by the time the ban was lifted.
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