More than 30 Oklahomans filed a lawsuit urging the Oklahoma Supreme Court to block state Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters’ mandate that all public schools incorporate the Bible into their curricula.
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May 23, 2024
Padres Unidos de Tulsa et al. v. Drummond et al
Immigrants' Rights
Status: Filed
Legal challenge to Oklahoma’s HB 4156, a far-reaching, harmful new law that would create a state system to regulate immigration that completely bypasses and conflicts with federal law and would have...
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May 2, 2023
Poe et.al. v. Drummond et.al.
2SLGBT+ Rights
Status: Pending
In a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Oklahoma, Lambda Legal, and the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, a group of families with transgender adolescents and medical providers...
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Sep 13, 2022
Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education
2SLGBT+ Rights
Status: On appeal
Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on behalf of three students, two of whom are high school students in Oklahoma City...
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Jun 24, 2022
Terry v. City of Oklahoma City
Status: Pending
The ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation and Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic filed on behalf of the same plaintiffs challenging the Oklahoma Riot Statute’s definition of “riot” as unconstitutionally...
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Jun 24, 2022
Terry v. O'Connor
Racial Justice
Status: Pending
The ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation, National Law Center for Economic Justice, and Herbert Smith Freehills filed a lawsuit on behalf of several plaintiffs.
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Oct 19, 2021
BERT v. Drummond
Free Speech
Status: On appeal
A multiracial group of students and educators filed a lawsuit today challenging an Oklahoma classroom censorship bill, HB 1775, which severely restricts public school teachers and students from learning and...