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The defense team, whose aim was to restore the monument to the capitol grounds, was led by E. Scott Pruitt, then the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, assisted by two other attorneys from his office. [b] Pruitt asserted that the Oklahoma Constitution did not apply, largely because no state money was used to buy or install the monument.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma: Full case name: Dr. Bruce Prescott, James Huff, Donald Chabot, and Cheryl Franklin, Plaintiff-Appelants, v. Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission, Defendant-Appelee. Decided: July 27 2015: Citation: 2015 OK 54, 373 P.3d 1032: Case history; Prior history: Plaintiff appealed from the decision of the District Court of ...
The Oklahoma State Capitol is the house of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the building that houses the Oklahoma Legislature and executive branch offices. It is located along Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City and contains 452,508 square feet of floor area. [ 2 ]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia . [ 1 ] For people executed by Oklahoma after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
G. Patrick Riley is an artist, art educator and mask maker from Oklahoma. His masks have been used in productions at the Kennedy Center.His works are in the collections of Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Oklahoma State Capitol, Arkansas Arts Center, AT&T collection and Lady Gaga. [1]
The same argument had been used against the Satanic Temple's petition to erect a statute of Baphomet at the Oklahoma State Capitol in 2014 by Oklahoma State Representative Paul Wesselhöft, who stated, "[Baphomet has no] historical significance for the State of Oklahoma...the only reason why the Ten Commandments [monument] qualified is because ...
He sponsored a bill in 2009 to have a monument to the Ten Commandments installed at the Oklahoma State Capitol. His family supplied $10,000 to fund the monument, which was installed in 2012. [2] On the night of Thursday, October 23, 2014, someone drove a vehicle across the Oklahoma State Capitol lawn and into
The Heritage, formerly known as the Journal Record Building, Law Journal Record Building, Masonic Temple and the India Temple Shrine Building, is a Neoclassical building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was completed in 1923 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] It was damaged in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.