The new judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit wants another seven days to issue his ruling. He asked the N.C. Supreme Court Tuesday to grant him another week to consider the case.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2022 @ 12:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new filing in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit would lop another $25 million off of the cost of court-ordered education spending.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs and N.C. Justice Department lawyers are urging a judge to order $795 million in new state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During his oversight of the Leandro case, Judge David Lee failed to scrutinize the comprehensive remedial plan that bears his signature
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 2:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Once again, we see that justice is not blind in North Carolina; it is tainted by partisanship. If it please the court or, more importantly you, let me argue my case.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:24 am
By: Tom Campbell
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We do not know why North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby used his legal authority to assign oversight of the Leandro v. State of North Carolina case to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The fight over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education spending is heading to a new judge. Court records confirm that the long-running legal case known as Leandro is heading to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal dispute over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education funding will head back to a Wake County courtroom on April 13. The new judge overseeing the dispute set that date during his first online meeting Thursday with lawyers involved in the case.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 5:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled, 4-2, that 220,000 state government retirees had a contractual right to premium-free health care benefits that had been promised to them. Now a trial court will have to determine whether state changes to those benefits a decade ago violated the contract.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A ruling overturning constitutional amendments would invalidate statewide votes of the people
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Will the North Carolina Supreme Court uphold newly drawn election maps for legislative and congressional races?
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ten days after throwing out North Carolina’s newly drawn congressional and legislative election maps, the state Supreme Court has produced its formal opinion in the case.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fate of two approved amendments to North Carolina’s Constitution now sits in the hands of the state Supreme Court. The court spent an hour Monday morning questioning lawyers who argued for and against the amendments.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 11:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Supreme Court decision that redistricting maps be redrawn to more accurately reflect the makeup of our state has five takeaways.
Published: Friday, February 11th, 2022 @ 5:22 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Roy Cooper’s emergency powers has moved closer to a resolution. The senior resident Superior Court judge for Wake County has agreed the case should head to a three-judge panel.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 5:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected state congressional and legislative election maps with a party-line 4-3 vote. The court’s four Democratic justices agreed to strike down maps drawn by a Republican-led legislature.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s legislative and congressional election maps now sit in the hands of the N.C. Supreme Court, after 90 minutes of oral arguments for and against the maps Wednesday morning.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Controller Linda Combs and Republican legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court not to step into the latest dispute involving the long-running Leandro school funding case. At stake is $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 10:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court’s senior associate justice, Robin Hudson, will not seek re-election next year. Hudson announced Thursday that she will not run for another term.
Published: Thursday, December 16th, 2021 @ 1:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Senator Norman W. Sanderson (R-District 2) of Pamlico County was honored by the North Carolina Republican Party by being inducted into the party’s statewide Hall of Fame during its 20th biennial awards banquet in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 11:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could affect retirement benefits for 222,000 former government workers and surviving spouses.
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 11:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court split 4-3 today while ruling against defendants in a pair of cases involving satellite-based monitoring of convicted sex offenders.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 5:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After splitting along party lines just twice in their first six months together, the current lineup of the N.C. Supreme Court has produced four more 4-3 partisan splits today.
Published: Thursday, September 2nd, 2021 @ 9:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal recently reported on the second quarter federal fundraising numbers for declared U.S. Senate candidates in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 @ 2:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Greenville bar owner’s lawsuit challenging the state Emergency Management Act is heading to a three-judge panel.
Published: Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 @ 1:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As courthouses begin to reopen across North Carolina, the state’s judicial branch office is preparing to request millions of dollars in funding to help keep them open.
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 @ 12:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Newly sworn in Chief Justice Paul Newby is wasting little time in getting North Carolina’s court system back up and running.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 @ 7:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The front yard of the Executive Mansion was transformed into an outdoor sound stage for the ceremony.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2021 @ 11:01 am
By: Governor's Office
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Newby’s election completed a Republican sweep of eight statewide judicial seats, including three at the Supreme Court and five on the Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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