Oklahoma

* Affirmative action as a 1st Amendment issue? Let’s see how this goes over. [Wa Po]

* Yale Law decides to be #1 when it comes to helping students that could use some financial aid. [ABC News]

* Wait, are they actually considering fetuses people for tax purposes? Gotta give it to Georgia! [Huff Po]

* Georgia’s heartbeat law also has some new implications for wrongful death suits. [11 Alive]

* An Oklahoma school gets docked after a teacher reported it for having their colleagues sit through staff training on implicit bias. I expected the childishness to come from the kids. [Ed Week]

* Stand firm: The People want to know where Biglaw firms stand on the overturning of ,em>Roe. [Reuters]

* Agency as tragedy: Governor defends Oklahoma’s lack of a rape or incest exception to abortion bans. [CBS News]

* Florida law lets cops harass you for playing music too loud. Talk about the right to remain silent. [Palm Beach Post]

* Biden signed off on a bill that makes it harder for convicted domestic abusers to buy guns. [Reuters]

* Oklahoma’s gun deaths jumped soon after constitutional carry became a thing. With Bruen now law, you may want to work from home. [Oklahoman]

* Back the children: The number of children that have been shot to death at school is higher than the amount of officers that have been killed in the line of duty. [AS]

* Oklahoma just banned abortion at fertilization. We’re like two steps off criminalizing miscarriages at this point, aren’t we? [CNN]

* NY judge maintains law that allows gun manufacturers to be sued if and when they endanger public safety. [CNN]

* Advertisers REALLY don’t like Texas’s social media law. [Adweek]

* If Roe is overturned, the right to choose will be set back 173 years in Wisconsin. [Madison]

* Justice Thomas’s views on which companies are common carriers could be key to compelling hate speech. [Ars Technica]

* Mississippi just strengthened its animal rights laws. Gotta look out for our buddies. [Action News]

* NY’s Supreme Court rules cops can’t use chokeholds again. Not sure why it was brought back in vogue but alright. [CNN]

* Kamala Harris gives Oklahoma’s abortion law anything but the OK. [NY Post]

* Judge continues ban on a Kentucky law that would prohibit abortion. [NBC News]

* Oklahoma signed SB8-like bill into law quickly after the Alito leak. [NPR]

* What’s the limit? Are IUDs next on the chopping block? [The Guardian]

* Get it off your chest: Georgia removes “free speech zone” restrictions on college campuses. [Inside Higher Ed]

* UVA Law’s Innocence Project has gotten over $6M in compensation for wrongly incarcerated folks. Talk about a valuable education! [Law.Virginia]

* Spirit declines to take JetBlue’s takeover offer. I can already hear the DOJ’s antitrust division stirring. [CH-Aviation]

* Laws matter: life lost after school neglects to follow anti-bullying protocol. [WBEZ]

* The EU’s laws will be impacting American free speech, eh? Talk about long-arm statutes. [The Hill]

* Oklahoma just passed their version of Texas’s Roe sidestep. Over/under for them banning condoms too in two weeks? [CNN]

* Marjorie Taylor Greene is maintaining the Shaggy defense for her Section 3 trial. [NBC News]

* People are upset that the Texas bill disincentivizing the use of clean energy isn’t enough to keep them using fossil fuels. Sorry, not sorry. [NPR]

* Musk thinks censorship shouldn’t go “beyond the law.” Big talk for a guy facing a securities fraud case. [The Hill]

* Just because: Man who passes bar after 20th attempt still can’t practice law in Massachusetts.  [ABA Journal]

* Adam and Eve, not Adam and Xe: Florida is like two steps away from legally mandating heterosexuality. [Tampa Bay Times]

* You are a boy, Damon! Oklahoma’s Gov. makes it illegal to put that your child is non-binary on their birth certificate. [CNN]

* Law students spent part of their 3L year protecting their clients civil rights! Power to them — I just played OSRS. [UARK]

* In Buffalo, wild winging it lands man in legal trouble. [WGRZ]

*  Something about you is different: an Oxford and Cincinnati firm merge under a new name. [Journal News]

* Can’t stand the heat? These UCLA law students are legislating the kitchen. [Newsroom]

* New Jersey will stop doing business with Russia in light of their invading Ukraine. In other news, I just found out New Jersey did business with Russia. [New Jersey Monitor]

* Oklahoma living: Wondered the legal way to get rid of raccoons by chance? Read this over your morning coffee. [WKDQ]

* Man, that guy could blow — trees: Famous saxophonist’s son in hot water after naming a weed brand after his father. [WMGK]

* “What’s really in name? Oh, that’s what it means! Yeah, let’s change that before we get sued.” The US Interior after doing quick Google searches of monument names, probably. [The Guardian]

* Another same-sex First Amendment case will be before the Supreme Court soon. You ever feel like you’re caught in a loop? [WSJ]

* South Carolina appeals court upholds lower court ruling that basically says, “You can’t just overrule Roe, dude.” Remember when 50ish years of precedent meant something? [Sun Herald]

* Oklahoma’s AG will be figuring out if time-honored literary classics like Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men are obscene. Trust, students see way worse content on Twitter. [Read Frontier]

* Not on my watch! Montana judge rules that last minute changes to a law were unconstitutional. [Billings Gazette]

* Deal with it: Despite Republican frustrations, New Jersey’s Supreme Court finds no issue with their congressional map. [Politico]

* Broken clocks need an attorney at least twice a day: Guy committing identify fraud is arrested because the dude he’s frauding also had a warrant. [Richmond Register]

* Utah bill is set to give parents full reign over what teachers are able to teach children. Helicopter mommy and daddy better be chipping in on school supplies too! [Salt Lake Tribune]

* A bill just got introduced in Oklahoma that would let you sue teachers for $10k if they teach something against your religion. The biggest display of faith here is the thought that teachers could make good on that judgment. [Independent]