Reform in the Oklahoma City Municipal Court was in part prompted by similar change within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and city court.
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Chicken-Fried News: Love letter
A man Gov. Mary Fallin recently appointed to the state Supreme Court might be ineligible.
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Chicken-Fried News: Frequent caller
One OKC woman found out the hard way that you can’t keep calling the police for funsies.
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Some drug reform advocates view the state’s cannabis laws as antiquated, counterproductive and slightly unfair.
Some drug reform advocates view the state’s cannabis laws as antiquated, counterproductive and slightly unfair.
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A black man was accused of killing a cop in 1910; the rest is history
With no eyewitnesses, no murder weapon and only the barest of circumstantial evidence, the men on the jury were asked to convict a man and send him to his death simply because he was black and wore winter attire near the murder of a white man.
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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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Letters to the Editor: April 15, 2014
The problem is the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. So, if a person condemned to die is kept from knowing the source, consistency and content of the drugs that will kill him or her, how can anyone know if it is cruel or unusual? In January, the final words […]
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Injunction junction
Credit: Brad Gregg Um, at least that’s the takeaway of state Sen. Anthony Sykes, R-Moore, a key supporter of an Oklahoma constitutional amendment to ban the use of Sharia law in state courts. On Aug. 15, a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against the amendment, which voters overwhelmingly approved in a 2010 statewide vote […]
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Pondering religious freedom
Perhaps Weigand could explain how Hobby Lobby’s claim to religious freedom entails that its owners’ religious freedom is more important than that of their employees. How is the religious freedom of employees an issue here? Is taking emergency birth control a religious act or obligation? If it is, how does refusing to finance an employee’s […]
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TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay — Away from Keyboard
The keyword there is “copyrighted,” of course. Violations of that law of have inflamed Hollywood, which responded with predictably fierce legal action. A 2008 court battle drives much of the new film TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay — Away from Keyboard. The feature debut of director Simon Klose, the documentary becomes available on demand from […]