US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Muneer Awad obtains an injunction against Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia amendment

📅 29 November 2010

A federal district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking Oklahoma’s proposed constitutional amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state courts. Muneer Awad argued that...

A federal court strikes down Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia constitutional amendment

📅 15 August 2013

A federal court invalidated Oklahoma’s amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state-court consideration. The ACLU and CAIR had supported Muslim plaintiffs’ challenge to a measure that...