Unless public health conditions significantly deteriorate, the phased re-opening of Oklahoma City Municipal Court will begin June 1. “We’ve been planning carefully to minimize the COVID-19 exposure risk for every visitor and employee in our building as we begin our phased re-opening,” said Municipal Court Administrator LaShawn Thompson. “We’ve made changes to our policies and […]
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Costly justice
Carlos came to the United States from Chihuahua, Mexico, about 35 years ago. An undocumented immigrant, Carlos has lived in New Mexico, Kansas and most recently Oklahoma with his family in pursuit of the American Dream. But that dream has been a letdown. For the past three years, he has been dealing with an immigration […]
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OKG Q&A: Comedian Eddie Izzard talks global politics, standing up to LGBT harassment ahead of Dec. 29 show
Comedy is like a cousin of journalism. Journalists point out intellectual truths and psychological truths about things that are going on in the world. Comics, we can point out things that make people laugh by pointing out the fallibility, the strangeness and the twisted nature of things.
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Efforts are underway to increase poor Oklahomans’ access to legal aid in civil cases
Oklahoma ranks in the bottom 10 states in access to civil justice.
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Chicken-Fried News: Bad/good news
Oklahoma lawmakers recently jumped at the chance to change a hazy law after a public court ruling went viral.
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If only I was a corporation
I should have expected the Hobby Lobby decision, given the record of the Roberts court, but it still made we wonder, yet again, if people are paying attention to what we are becoming — or more accurately, what we have become. Because Oklahoma’s Green family, which owns the company, objects on religious grounds to the […]
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Same-sex showdown
Voters in 2004 overwhelmingly approved a ban on same-sex marriage, but a state judge ruled in January that the ban was unconstitutional. The issue was argued in front of the court of appeals on April 17, marking only the second time a state same-sex marriage case has been heard by a federal court. James Campbell, […]
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Circuit Court hears case for Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban
Voters in 2004 overwhelmingly approved a ban on same-sex marriage, but a state judge ruled in January that the ban was unconstitutional. The issue was in front of the Court of Appeal, marking just the second time a state same-sex marriage case has been heard by a federal court. James Campbell, an attorney representing the […]
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Five things to know about Thursday’s same-sex marriage hearing
U.S. District Judge Terence Kern ruled earlier this year that Oklahoma’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Kern’s ruling was immediately stayed, and an appeal was filed with the federal appeals court in Denver. It could take months for the circuit court to issue a ruling on Oklahoma’s case, and many believe the issue […]
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Hamm conundrum
The court will ultimately decide how many of his billions of dollars Hamm gets to keep and how much will go to his wife, Sue Ann Hamm. Forbes reported that in a Feb. 13 order that was unsealed on March 4, an Oklahoma District Court judge determined that Hamm’s 122 million shares in the company […]