James R. Winchester (born March 23, 1952)[1] is an American lawyer and judge who has served as on the Oklahoma Supreme Court for district 5 since 2000.
During his tenure as a district judge, he tried more than 200 jury trials, ranging from fraud to first-degree murder death-penalty cases.
He was named to District 5, which includes Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson, Love, McClain and Stephens counties.
The only exception was to allow access to dockets, and parties to the case were required to redact personal information before the document could be released.
The post further explained that lawyers, free-speech advocates, law enforcement, court clerks, journalists and companies that perform background checks had all complained that the rules were too far-reaching.
The office of the Chief Justice publicly announced that it was withdrawing the order to allow time for further study and consideration of the issue.
[6] John M. Wylie of the Oologah Lake Leader was named as the March 2008 editorial winner by the Oklahoma Press Association (OPA) for a highly critical piece he wrote, even citing two provisions of the Oklahoma Constitution that Winchester and his colleagues allegedly violated in attempting to impose the order.
[a] The court majority ruled that the monument must be removed promptly because it violated Article 2, Section 5, of the Oklahoma Constitution, which says that (state) property cannot be used to promote a "church denomination or system of religion".
[b] Governor Mary Fallin claimed the court's ruling was erroneous and announced that she would not allow the removal while the state appealed the decision.
By 2022, the state had appealed the case to OSC, requesting an award of $9.3 billion, which it had intended to use in fighting the opioid crisis.
“J&J had no control of its products through the multiple levels of distribution, including after it sold the opioids to distributors and wholesalers, which were then disbursed to pharmacies, hospitals, and physicians’ offices, and then prescribed by doctors to patients.