The state Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case involving a property-rights dispute over a sewer line in Apex. The town requested a review from the high court in June 2021.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 3:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A five-year-old lawsuit challenging North Carolina's voter ID and tax cap state constitutional amendments will head to a three-judge panel.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With a 4-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed that two voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be thrown out. They have sent the case back to a trial judge to make that decision.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New orders block all activity in a lawsuit challenging Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 11:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal fight over North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program focuses now on whether a single judge or a three-judge panel should hear the case. Lawyers for the state and the scholarships’ parent supporters have filed new briefs supporting the three-judge option.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has agreed to block further pretrial discovery in a lawsuit challenging the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. The court granted a request from parents defending the school choice program.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 1:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Two more documents filed late Friday with the N.C. Court of Appeals take aim at legal tactics employed by opponents of the Opportunity Scholarship Program. The filings also criticize the trial judge who has been overseeing a lawsuit challenging the program.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 11:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents supporting North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program want a three-judge panel to review a lawsuit challenging the scholarships. A motion filed in the N.C. Court of Appeals this month seeks to have the case transferred away from a single trial judge.
Published: Saturday, December 18th, 2021 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Should Democrats on the State Supreme Court make the highly partisan and controversial move of forcing two Republican State Supreme Court Justices off a critical case to decide the fate of voter-approved state constitutional amendments requiring voter ID and lowering the maximum income tax rate.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 8:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The election lawsuit merry-go-round keeps turning, as tens of thousands of North Carolinians cast ballots at early voting sites, and legislative leaders urge the State Board of Elections to “stop this chaos.”
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 10:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the State Board of Elections’ attempt to rewrite N.C. elections law.
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 @ 9:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Wake County property owner Beverly Rubin has been fighting a legal battle with the city of Apex for five years after the city used eminent domain to place a sewer line through her property.
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2020 @ 4:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A decision by Wake County Superior Court Judge Bryan Collins to invalidate two constitutional amendments isn't necessarily tarnished by partisanship or judicial activism, former Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr says.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 @ 9:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper's second State of the State address included plenty of proposals liberals and Democrats cheered
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 @ 9:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With his congressional campaign in debt, his integrity under siege, his health in question, and a criminal investigation over corruption gathering steam, some political observers are doubtful.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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