Under Oklahoma law, condemnation refers to the legal process by which a government or authorized private entity acquires private property for public use through the exercise of eminent domain.

The Post and Courier has been named the winner of the American Bar Association’s 2023 Silver Gavel Award for Newspapers for its investigative narrative story about an intellectually disabled man ...

AL.com was one of just two newspaper organizations in the nation to earn recognition in the 2025 Silver Gavel Awards. The American Bar Association today recognized the series Denied: Alabama’s ...

NHPR’s Civics 101 podcast was honored with the American Bar Association‘s prestigious Silver Gavel Award for increasing the public’s understanding of law and our legal system.

AL.com Columnist Kyle Whitmire has been named a finalist for a national journalism award through the American Bar Association. Whitmire’s commentary “Alabama’s Desperate Bid for a Milligan ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — KXAN’s investigation into the state’s spending along the border has been honored with the Texas Gavel Award (Major Metro) from the Texas State Bar. The Texas Gavel Awards ...

On February 28, 2023, Nevada state geologist Jim Faulds was in Washington, D.C. to present an award to Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto on behalf of the Association of American State Geologists ...

A Fox 11 news story explaining how wire taps were used in a heroin investigation has won a Certificate of Commendation in the annual Golden Gavel Awards competition sponsored by the State Bar of ...

Iowa linebacker Nick Jackson has been named the recipient of the 2024 Duke Slater Golden Gavel Award, an annual honor voted on by Iowa media members who regularly cover the Hawkeye football program.

(AUSTIN) KXAN — A KXAN Investigation into Travis County’s child protective courts has won the 2015 Texas Gavel Award from the State Bar of Texas, which recognizes “journalistic excellence ...

The takeaway: show your work today, and your hard-fought fee award will likely be upheld tomorrow. This article appeared in the April 25, 2024, issue of The Journal Record . It is reproduced with ...