Briefs and rulings from courthouses across the land.
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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An Oklahoma jury awarded $10 million each to the families of two men who died in a natural gas well explosion that killed five in 2018 - the deadliest drilling incident since the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 people a decade ago.
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A flamboyant Oklahoma zookeeper known as Joe Exotic was sentenced Wednesday to over two decades in federal prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill a rival animal sanctuary operator in Florida.
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Oklahoma officials sued opioid distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen in state court Monday, claiming the companies failed to stop and report suspiciously large orders of opioid prescription drugs that were diverted and killed scores of addicts.
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The state of Oklahoma will receive $8.75 million from two pharmaceutical companies in a deal announced Friday that will end legal action the state was considering against the opioid manufacturers.
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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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