Tribal Land

Oklahoma’s attorney general asked the state’s top criminal appeals court to rehear a triple murder case after a death-row inmate’s conviction was tossed out based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that the state lacked jurisdiction to prosecute due to Congress’s failure to dissolve the tribal lands the crimes were committed on.

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Texas and Oklahoma to Join States Authorizing Covid Vaccines for All Adults

The Lone Star and Sooner States will be over a month ahead of President Biden’s May 1 deadline to open up vaccinations to all adults.

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Chickasaw Nation Offers Free Vaccines to All Oklahomans, Beating State Officials

The Native American nation is one of the first jurisdictions in the United States to offer vaccines to all state residents without restrictions

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The Feds Made Me Do It: Oklahoma Man Appeals 25-Year-Sentence in Bank Bomb Plot

The 10th Circuit reconsiders the 25-year prison sentence of an Oklahoma man who plotted to blow up a bank alongside undercover FBI agents.

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Triple Murder Conviction Tossed After High Court Ruling on Oklahoma Tribal Land

An Oklahoma appeals court agreed with a death-row inmate that the state lacks jurisdiction to prosecute him because the killings occurred on Chickasaw Nation territory that was never dissolved by Congress and victims were tribe members.

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Oklahoma House Passes Bill Protecting Drivers Who Injure or Kill Rioters

The Republican-supported House Bill 1674 also seeks to punish rioters with up to a year in state prison and $5,000 in fines

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French Heiress Ratchets Up Battle With US Over Nazi-Looted Painting

A French Holocaust survivor battling with an American university over a painting by Camille Pissarro that was stolen by the Nazis went to court in Paris on Tuesday to try block the university from suing her for millions of dollars.

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