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• November 06, 2026

  Creek Freedmen Say Chief Can't Defy Citizenship Ruling

  Two descendants of Black people once enslaved by an Indigenous tribe implored an Oklahoma federal court to keep alive their challenge to an effort to deny them citizenship in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, saying the tribe's principal chief has for more than a year defied a tribal Supreme Court ruling that gave them the right and is wrongly trying to use an immunity claim to avoid a federal treaty that guarantees them citizenship.

• November 06, 2026

  Up Next At High Court: Pipeline Takings & H-2A Fines

  The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and if the U.S. Department of Labor can use in-house courts to issue civil penalties for violations of its temporary agricultural worker program. 

• November 05, 2026

  Calif. Gov. Newsom Seeks To Empty Death Row At Term's End

  Outgoing California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved to commute the sentences of all 548 of the state's death row prisoners to life without parole, saying Thursday that the death penalty was morally unjustifiable.

• November 04, 2026

  Justices Hear Texas Challenge Of 'Unavailable' Habeas Claim

  The Texas solicitor general urged the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments Wednesday to overturn a decision allowing a death row prisoner's successive habeas claim for intellectual disability under new diagnostic standards, saying the challenge did not qualify for a rare exception under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

• November 03, 2026

  NY Inmate Who Fears Death Upon Deportation In ICE Custody

  A Jamaican national who told Law360 he feared the end of his three-decade stint in a New York prison would lead to being deported to Jamaica, where he would likely be killed, is seeking asylum after being taken into immigration enforcement custody last week.

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