My colleague Don van der Vaart writes today about NC Attorney General Josh Stein’s bizarre settlement announcement this week despite recently declaring a December NC Supreme Court “a major win for electricity consumers on coal ash cleanup costs.”
Published: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My colleague Don van der Vaart writes today about NC Attorney General Josh Stein’s bizarre settlement announcement this week
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2021 @ 11:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein wants lawmakers to use millions won from a settlement with Dish Network for violating telemarketing laws to expand internet access for students, but legislative leaders are so far non-committal on the proposal.
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 @ 1:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A split 2-1 panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that money resulting from a settlement between Smithfield Foods and the N.C. attorney general must flow into the state treasury.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 9:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To usurp means “to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right,” according to my copy of Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 11:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Fewer than six weeks from the 2020 general election, two of the five members of the State Board of Elections walked off the job.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2020 @ 11:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In what appears to be a blatant abuse of the classic sue and settle tactic, Governor Roy Cooper’s handpicked North Carolina State Board of Elections and Josh Stein have “agreed” to overrule statutory law and weaken bipartisan election protections.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 3:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A settlement in an election lawsuit strips absentee ballot protections, opening the door for election fraud, one election expert says.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 4:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Novartis Admits to Certain Conduct Alleged in the Lawsuit and Agrees to Strict Limitations on Its Ability to Conduct Future Speaker Programs
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 @ 5:08 pm
By: George H. Schryer
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Fast casual restaurant Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $25 million to settle criminal charges against the company for food-safety violations.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 @ 6:43 am
By: Daily Wire
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Once again, Becki Gray made her regular appearance on North Carolina Public Radio with WUNC Politics host Jeff Tiberii. Joining Gray and Tiberii was Rob Schofield from the N.C. Justice Center.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 7:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Superior Court judge has reversed course on a $2.5-million settlement granting a Confederate veterans group ownership of Silent Sam.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Parishioners took out a vicious criminal on Sunday within mere seconds of the man's opening fire on innocent people in the pews
Published: Wednesday, January 1st, 2020 @ 8:55 am
By: LifeZette
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A report published late on Sunday night identified the man who allegedly used a firearm on Sunday to stop an armed attacker at West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas as 71-year-old Jack Wilson.
Published: Monday, December 30th, 2019 @ 7:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Silent Sam deal might encourage copycats.
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 2:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Vidant Medical Center (VMC) continues to be committed and open to discussions about changes to its board structure.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2019 @ 12:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A company cited for questionable contract dealings in a recent state audit of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission in 2015 paid a civil settlement of $7.8 million under federal allegations of fraud
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's about keeping families together, while at the same time, being sure that we have a very powerful, very strong border.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2018 @ 5:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, President Donald J. Trump signed two proclamations, which note that measures are in place to address the impairment to the national security threatened by imports of steel and aluminum from Argentina, Brazil, and Australia.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 9:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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From now on, we expect trading relationships to be fair and to be reciprocal.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 8:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Civitas Center for Law and Freedom (CLF) today has filed suit against Roy Cooper in his capacity as North Carolina Attorney General alleging that he illegally funneled settlement money to special interest groups.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 4:18 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) attended a Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee oversight hearing on the Obama Administration's FY 2017 Refugee Resettlement Program, where he urged his colleagues to put politics aside and find concrete ways to improve the U.S. refugee program.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2016 @ 6:30 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Last week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) cosponsored H.R. 3314, The Resettlement Accountability National Security Act of 2015Last week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) cosponsored H.R. 3314, The Resettlement Accountability National Security Act of 2015
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement following the announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice had reached a settlement with S&P involving North Carolina and 18 other states
Published: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015 @ 6:58 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Known as the home of to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, Wake Forest University, and the Moravian settlement of the Carolinas, Forsyth County was annexed from Stokes County in 1849 and was named for a War of 1812 colonel, Benjamin Forsyth.
Published: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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