Tulsa Attorney BlogCategory: McGirt

113 Articles:

• SCOTUS to Decide: Can Oklahoma Prosecute Non-Indians for Crimes Against Indians in Indian Country?

  By Staff, January 26th, 2022

  The court decided to accept the case, but it was narrow in saying that we’re not going to accept it for both those issues.

• United States Supreme Court Declines Oklahoma’s Request to Overturn McGirt

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., January 25th, 2022

  The court has specifically said, “We are not going to re-decide, re-litigate, re-hear the main decision in McGirt.

• United States Supreme Court Declines Oklahoma’s Request to Overturn McGirt

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., January 25th, 2022

  The court has specifically said, “We are not going to re-decide, re-litigate, re-hear the main decision in McGirt.

• Final, Uncontested Judgment Vacating a Conviction Under McGirt Is Itself Vacated 6 Months Later

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., January 24th, 2022

  Oklahoma court makes an unprecedented decision.

• OCCA Rules Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation was Disestablished in the Year 1900

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., January 23rd, 2022

  Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reviewed that and found that be an explicit disestablish of the reservation at that time.

• McGirt Expands to Mining Regulation in Northeast Oklahoma

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., January 21st, 2022

  The McGirt decision from the United States Supreme Court found the Muskogee Creek Nation was never disestablished.

• United States Supreme Court Refuses to Hear the Wallace Appeal (State v. Parish)

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., January 20th, 2022

  As a practical matter, many people in the state of Oklahoma obviously want to mitigate the damages caused by the decision in McGirt.

• United States Supreme Court Refuses to Hear the Wallace Appeal (State v. Parish)

  By Staff, January 20th, 2022

    Video Transcribed: United States Supreme Court refuses to hear the Wallace appeal. I’m Oklahoma attorney James Wirth and I am a lawyer in Tulsa. I’m doing a video regarding an update in the Wallace case. That is the case where the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals decided that McGirt, rather than just being an issue […]

• McGirt Challenge: SCOTUS Continues Conference in Castro-Huerta Case

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., January 19th, 2022

  The defendant in this is accused of a crime where the victim is a Native American, but the defendant himself is not.

• The United States Supreme Sets Conference Date for Wallace Case (State v. Parish)

  By James M. Wirth, Esq., December 16th, 2021

  McGirt basically redefined what is Indian country in Oklahoma by finding that the Muscogee Creek Nation had never been disestablished.