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The city of Asheville has moved to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by five white applicants for the city's Human Relations Commission. The city disputes the plaintiffs' argument that they were rejected because of their race.
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2023 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Dr. Deborah Birx also admits that masks don't work
Published: Monday, September 4th, 2023 @ 12:50 pm
By: John Steed
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The N.C. Revenue Department accuses tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris of misreading state law in a legal dispute over an $8.7 million tax bill. The dispute sits with the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 4:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court has set June 15 as the date to review two cases with N.C. ties. One involves a dispute over state sales tax assessments. The other covers procedures for prosecuting drunk-driving cases.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2023 @ 7:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Daniel Penny, the man who put Jordan Neely into a fatal headlock aboard a New York City subway train on May 1, is disputing the claim that his restraint lasted for 15 minutes.
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2023 @ 8:49 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In a trio of rulings Friday, the N.C. Supreme Court restored the state's voter ID law, took state courts out of partisan gerrymandering disputes, and ended voting for felons who have not completed their sentences.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 5:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections is considering adoption of a Campaign Finance Settlement Policy to resolve disputes over campaign finance civil penalties involving unlawful campaign contributions and expenditures.
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 @ 11:32 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Alec Baldwin took to social media Friday and hit back against the recent findings in an FBI report about the fatal shooting on the set of his movie “Rust” that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 6:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The original judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit disputes the notion that a judge can force other government actors to spend more money on education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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stands up for parents rights
Published: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 @ 8:06 am
By: John Steed
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A bill introduced in Kentucky this week would “add false reporting of claims of abuse towards another party or de facto custodian to the list of factors a court shall consider when making a custody determination.”
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2021 @ 8:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Katherine Doyle of the Washington Examiner discusses the impact President Trump is having on the Republican Party.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court opened the door in 2018 to a potential seismic shift in state government power.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 11:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Kevin Daley of the Washington Free Beacon explores the potential role of the nation’s highest court in resolving election disputes.
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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American history is no stranger to heated election disputes. In 1824, Adams beat Jackson in a race thrown to the House of Representatives.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020 @ 2:16 am
By: Judicial Watch
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Tragedy struck on September 24, 2017 when 59-year-old Phillip “Lee” Terry, an Indianapolis Amazon worker, was crushed to death by a forklift while on the job.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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Governor disputes Duke executives' accounts of meetings over $57.8-million discretionary fund
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 4:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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What does it mean to be free? Many seemingly intractable disputes about specific issues — ranging from welfare spending and school choice to abortion and alcohol policy — originate from the fact that people don’t answer this question in the same way.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 @ 9:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Republican-led N.C. General Assembly must draw new state House and Senate district maps, a court has ruled.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 2:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During the 2016 gubernatorial campaign, Democratic politicians, progressive activists, and left-leaning media outlets excoriated Pat McCrory and other North Carolina Republicans for elevating divisive social disputes above the issues that most voters care most about, such as creating jobs and impr
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When it comes to disputes about free speech, "snowflakes" occupy both sides of the aisle
Published: Friday, September 8th, 2017 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The weekly "Front Row" political panel program on UNC-TV features a regular segment on "who's up" and "who's down" in state and national politics
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2017 @ 12:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite being controlled by Republicans, the State Board of Elections didn't seem to heed a request to make "party-line changes" last week when it approved plans for early voting this fall
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2016 @ 7:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent debates about the legal challenge of North Carolina's 2013 election law highlight a particularly disturbing feature of present-day political discourse: Pundits and politicians frequently fail to acknowledge the important differences between a policy debate and a legal dispute
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several of my recent columns have addressed the statistical basis of political disputes over education funding, the state budget, and declines in North Carolina’s unemployment rate.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Higher education used to be a quiet sector of American life, seldom disturbed by anything but academic disputes. It was like Gettysburg in June of 1863. Then the armies arrived to fight tooth and nail - this time over the issue of affirmative action. Two major battle actions are going on right now..
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2013 @ 11:06 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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