Indians’ Class Suit Says McGirt Renders Thousands Of Oklahoma Prosecutions Invalid

(July 21, 2020, 1:09 PM EDT) -- TULSA, Okla. — Five Native Americans in Oklahoma who were charged with traffic or misdemeanor offenses by local police sued dozens of counties, courts, municipalities and prosecutors in federal court July 20 seeking damages from their prosecutions based on the recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma that a large section of eastern Oklahoma is still an Indian reservation (Tayleur Raye Pickup, et al. v. District Court of Nowata County, Oklahoma, No. 4:20-cv-00346, N.D. Okla.)....