By Randy Mitchell | For The Ada News Dec 22, 2020 1 of 2
On Friday, an Oklahoma district judge vacated and set aside Thomas Ward s (pictured) convictions and sentences, and ordered him discharged from the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
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On Friday, former Ada resident Thomas Jesse Ward, convicted of a murder he insists he did not commit, was ordered to be set free after more than 35 years in custody.
Oklahoma District Court Judge Paula Inge granted Ward s amended application for post-conviction relief and vacated and set aside the judgements and sentences against him.
According to court records filed Friday in Pontotoc County District Court, Inge wrote, . this court finds that the factual contentions made by the petitioner, Thomas Jesse Ward, in his amended application for post-conviction relief are sufficient as a matter of law to establish a prima facie showing the petitioner is entitled to post-co
A year in review of the top agricultural law stories.
Agricultural Law Specialist Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, takes a look at the top ag law stories throughout this year. There was certainly no shortage of ag law news in 2020, she writes. Lashmet reviews some of the biggest ag law stories from the last 365 days.
Dicamba Controversy and Litigation
For cotton and soybean farmers, dicamba certainly has to the biggest issue of 2020. To hear more, listen to this podcast episode with Brigit Rollins.
The year started with
Bader v. Monsanto, the first trial in a slew of cases involving drift issues related to the dicamba tolerant cotton and soybean seeds and corresponding pesticides. The plaintiff, a peach farmer, filed suit against Monsanto and BASF for drift damage to his orchard in 2015-2016. He claimed Monsanto should be liable for “willful and negligent release of a defective crop system without an accompanying, EPA-approved dicamb
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Mark Levin Goes After Supreme Court for Refusing to Hear Trump Lawsuits: ‘They Have Done A Grave Disservice’
By Zachary PetrizzoDec 20th, 2020, 9:20 pm
Fox News host
Mark Levin went after the United States Supreme Court on Sunday night over the high court tossing out pro-President
Donald Trump election lawsuits aimed at overturning the 2020 election results.
“This is why we have a Supreme Court. Judicial Review for the purpose of upholding the United States Constitution,” Levin began.
“When it [The Supreme Court] sits there and pretends that they’re just observers. That decide they don’t want to get involved. They have done a grave disservice to this country. They have not upheld the constitution and we will pay the price for this, in elections to come,” he continued.
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Los Angeles County recently announced that it was allowing houses of worship to hold both indoor and outdoor services, reversing an earlier ban on indoor services.
In a statement Saturday, the county government explained that the decision to allow the services comes due to recent legal decisions from the United States Supreme Court.
“Places of worship are permitted to offer faith-based services both indoors and outdoors with mandatory physical distancing and face coverings over both the nose and mouth that must be worn at all times while on site,” stated the county.
“Places of worship must also assure that attendance does not exceed the number of people who can be accommodated while maintaining a physical distance of six feet between separate households.”