OK Supreme Court: McGirt does not extend to Civil and Regulatory Law

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Mc-Girt v. Oklahoma, which held that the pre-statehood reservation of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation was never formally disestablished for purposes of federal criminal law, created vast uncertainty regarding regulatory issues across most of eastern Oklahoma.The multiple “reservations” effectively recreated by McGirt cover nearly half the state a...