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When Is My Court Date? Ask the Courtbot App
When Is My Court Date? Ask the Courtbot App If you wonder how to remember when your next court date is, you now have an easy button. A new app lets you enter your case number and get a text message 24 hours before a court date. Now, we would not recommend a free, open […] Read more »Oklahoma Supreme Court Strikes Barrier to Medical Malpractice Cases
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has again stricken a law that required plaintiffs to seek an experts approval before filing medical malpractice lawsuits. Read more »State Ordered to Pay Attorneys Fees in Illegal Drivers License Revocation
In a precedent-setting case, the Oklahoma Dept. of Public Safety was ordered to pay attorney fees after the agency twice illegally revoked a mans drivers license. Read more »Wirth Law Office Renovates 500 W. 7th St. in Preparation for Relocation
As one of Tulsa's fastest growing law firms, Wirth Law Office has carved out a new location near the Tulsa County District Court. View images of the remodeling project as Wirth Law makes its mark on Seventh Street. Read more »DHS to Start Pocketing a Share of Your Child Support
Oklahoma DHS Child Support Services has announced plans to charge custodial parents a 3 percent fee - per child - for collecting support payments from a non-custodial parent. A Tulsa child support attorney explains. Read more »Wirth Law's Okmulgee Attorney Speaks Out on Motion to Disqualify Judge
The Tulsa World quoted Wirth Law Office's Okmulgee criminal defense attorney Justin Mosteller in an article about Okmulgee District Attorney Rob Burriss' Motion to Disqualify Judge Ken Adair from hearing criminal cases in Okmulgee. The judge stayed action in about 200 cases for more potnetially than three months until the Motion to Disqualify is resolved. Mosteller said the motion could have a chilling effect on judges who question the truthfulness of police testimony. Read more »Okmulgee District Attorney Wants Judge Disqualified
The Okmulgee County District Attorney is seeking the disqualification of an Okmulgee judge after the judge on four occasions over four years ruled that police officers lied or embellished facts during testimony. The DA's Motion to Disqualify does not dispute the judge's rulings, but claims they could represent a bias against law enforcement. Read more »Wirth Law Office Tulsa Attorneys Are Moving Up
A move to firm-owned offices located near Tulsa County District Court will anchor Wirth Law Office as a premiere member of the Tulsa legal community and solidify our reputation among Tulsa's fastest growing law firms. Read more »Oklahoma Informed Consent Requires Disclosure When Assistants Perform Surgery
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has reversed a district court decision in a Tulsa medical negligence case where a patient said she had not given informed consent for an assistant's involvement in surgical procedures. In Oklahoma medical negligence claims, evidence that a patient did not consent to a particular assistant's participation can be a reason to take a case to trial, the court concluded. Read more »Tulsa Expungement Attorney on KTUL's Good Day Tulsa
Changes in Oklahoma expungment law now make it easier than ever to get Oklahoma court records sealed. Tulsa expungement attorney James Wirth explained the new expungment laws to Good Day Tulsa's Erin Christy. Read more »Rape-Kit Task Force Could Spark Flood of Oklahoma Rape Charges
An Oklahoma governors panel tasked with explaining a backlog of rape kits in police evidence warehouses has the potential to start a flood new Oklahoma rape charges against innocent people based on trivial DNA evidence and contrived theories of a crime. A new look at old DNA evidence could, however, result in wrongfully convicted people finally finding justice. Read more »State Court Defines Primary Physical Custody in Oklahoma Joint Custody Orders
In a landmark child custody ruling, The Oklahoma Supreme Court has decided parents who share share joint custody of a child may not petition to relocate the child unless a court has declared one parent to be the primary physical custodian. A Tulsa child custody attoroIn a landmark child custody ruling, The Oklahoma Supreme Court has decided parents who share share joint custody of a child may not petition to relocate the child unless a court has declared one parent to be the primary physical custodian. explains how the ruling affects parents with various types of child custody in Oklahoma. Read more »Oklahoma Supreme Court Finds Speedy Trial Violation in DUI License Revocation
The Oklahoma Supreme Court handed down speedy trial guidelines for DPS drivers license revocation hearings, suggesting the hearings must be scheduled within 60 days after DPS receives a request for a hearing. But DPS has been notoriously reluctant to accept its losses. While the new precedent could pave the way for streamlined hearing process, we anticipate the DPS docket will remain clogged with cases the Supreme Court would likely dismiss but DPS will more likely refuse to let go until told to do so by a superior court. Read more »Wirth Law Office Expungement Attorney in the Tulsa World
Tulsa expungement attorney James Wirth sponsored a full-page ad in the Jan. 29, 2017 Tulsa World to explain the benefits of sealing court records in view of recent changes in Oklahoma expungement law. Read more »Appeals Court: Oklahoma DUI Prosecutions Can Rely on Invalid Rules
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals concluded DUI attorneys cannot challenge admissibility of breathalyzer results based on the Board of Tests failure to follow state rules for authorizing breathalyzer equipment. Read more »Tulsa Common Law Marriage Attorney on Fox 23
Oklahoma courts require clear and convincing evidence when a common law marriage is alleged. Common law marriage can occur with a meeting of the minds between two partners who agree to be married, but proving that agreement can be a more complicated endeavor. Read more »New Law Allows Fast Track Expungement in Oklahoma
A Tulsa expungment lawyer explains how people convicted of some misdemenaors are immediately eligible to have the conviction removed from public records. Wait times for other expungments were cut from 10 years to five years. The law also allows some people convicted of two non-violent felonies to seek expungment. Read more »Tulsa Personal Injury Attorney Interviewed on KTUL-TV
Tulsa auto accident attorney James Wirth spoke with Tulsa's Channel 8 about the limits of auto liability coverage and how policy limits affect personal injury lawsuits in Oklahoma. The reporter needed more information about Oklahoma personal injury law after a victim of the 2015 Oklahoma State University homecoming crash filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for damages. Read more »Can I Get A Tulsa Public Defender if I Post Bail?
Posting bond can reduce your chances of getting a court-appointed attorney in Oklahoma. Yet, even if you post bond, when you appear in court without an attorney the court must still ask whether you can afford an attorney. If a court fails to ask about your ability to pay for legal counsel, any decisions the court makes while you do not have a lawyer might be reversed on appeal. Read more »Court Declines to Review Case that Invalidated Oklahoma DUI Breathalyzer Tests
State Failed to Adopt Valid Intoxilyzer 8000 Rules The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Sept. 26, 2016 declined to review the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals decision in a drivers license revocation case that effectively – should – make breath test evidence from the current generation of breathalyzer machines inadmissible in Oklahoma DUI cases. It might […] Read more »What is First-Degree Manslaughter Resisting Criminal Attempt in Oklahoma?
First degree manslaughter charges filed against a Tulsa police officer for killing an unarmed suspect who disobeyed orders highlight a narrow distinction between justifiable self-defense homicide and unlawful killing in a heat of passion or while preventing a criminal attempt. Read more »Pawnee Business Counsel Appoints Earl Lawson as Tribal Prosecutor
The Pawnee Business Council has appointed Wirth Law Office of-counsel attorney Earl Lawson as Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma's prosecutor in Pawnee Nation District Court. Read more »Speedy Trial Violations Void Drivers License Revocations in Oklahoma DUI Arrests
The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals decided year-long delays before DUI drivers license revocations hearings amount to speedy trial violations. While Oklahoma DPS says the delays are the result of budget constraints, the agency is also awaiting the Oklahoma Supreme Court's possible review of a decision that undermined the agency's reliance on a current generation of breathalyzers. The Intoxilyzer 8000 is used to gather evidence for drivers license revocations and for DUI criminal cases. Read more »Tulsa Attorney Provides Legal Expertise on Bail Bonds in Oklahoma
Publication Investigated Alleged Hate Crime TalkingPointsMemo.com quoted Tulsa attorney James Wirth in an article about a shooting in which Khalid Jabara, a Tulsa man of Lebanese heritage, was shot to death on his front doorstep. Witnesses alleged a neighbor charged as a suspect in the south-side killing, Stanley Vernon Majors, was motivated by ethnic hatred. The […] Read more »Audit: Rogers County DA Office Deleted Financial Records
State auditors cited two Oklahoma felony laws as criteria for a finding that the District Attorney's Office in Rogers County deleted financial records. The audit also cites a misdemeanor provision of the Oklahoma Open Records Act, which forbids public officials from deleting public records. Read more »
