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Opponents of North Carolina's voter ID law seek a February trial in their federal court case.
Published: Sunday, February 11th, 2024 @ 8:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judge Arthur Engoron will not allow former President Donald Trump to make his own closing argument in his New York civil business fraud trial on Thursday after Trump was reportedly planning on speaking in court.
Published: Saturday, January 20th, 2024 @ 1:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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A split state Court of Appeals panel has agreed to block a Forsyth County trial court order that favored local video sweepstakes operators.
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 7:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court ruling favoring Louisburg in a dispute over a Confederate monument removed from Main Street in 2020.
Published: Monday, November 13th, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court ruling favoring shrimp trawlers in a dispute involving the Clean Water Act.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 5:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election obstruction trial in federal court released details in the limited gag order imposed on the former president, restricting him from making “grave threats” against the special counsel, witnesses, or court staff.
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 8:21 am
By: Daily Wire
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The New York judge in former President Donald Trump’s non-jury civil fraud trial imposed a limited gag order after Trump shared the name and image of the judge’s clerk on social media.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 8:23 am
By: Daily Wire
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In a split 2-1 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court's ruling favoring an investment consultant for Lowe's Home Improvement. A former employee sued the consultant on behalf of people enrolled in Lowe's retirement plan.
Published: Saturday, October 7th, 2023 @ 10:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal Appeals Court has upheld a trial court's ruling favoring Chapel Hill in a dispute over affordable housing fees charged to developers.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 7:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Arizona’s Supreme Court sent part of Kari Lake‘s appeal of her 2022 governor’s race defeat back to a trial court for review while refusing to hear the rest of the claims.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 12:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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sends key signature verification issue back to trial court
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 11:04 am
By: John Steed
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court ruling supporting the planned Mid-Currituck Bridge to the Outer Banks.
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2023 @ 12:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court ruling for Dare County in a dispute over COVID restrictions.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2023 @ 4:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The trial for pro-life activist and Catholic father of seven Mark Houck started Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Gerald J. Pappert in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 7:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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A lawsuit challenging N.C. Opportunity Scholarships will head to a three-judge trial court panel. That move represents a legal win for the state, legislative leaders, and parents defending Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 10:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders argue a trial court's $785 million Leandro spending order exceeds judicial authority over public education.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 3:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Winners of a recent trial court ruling on voting rights for felons want the N.C. Supreme Court to take up the case. The ruling could affect 56,000 felons who have completed active prison time.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
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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Legislative defenders of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program are asking the N.C. Court of Appeals to block “burdensome” trial court activity in a lawsuit challenging the program.
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @ 6:18 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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Democrats can’t win at the ballot box, so they’ve decided to create a tangled legal web. The left’s lawsuit industrial complex is attempting to overwhelm the courts and confuse the public.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 7:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, the second day of the defense in the trial against Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, one witness for the defense would not come to court despite being subpoenaed; one insisted they would cite the Fifth Amendment in order to avoid commenting on the case
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 5:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. Constitution’s protection of economic liberty could help a fired Durham police sergeant in his lawsuit against the city. A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has overturned a trial court’s ruling against the fired officer.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 7:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A split 2-1 state Superior Court panel has rejected North Carolina’s voter ID law, five months after holding a trial in the case. The court majority labeled the 2018 law racially discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Published: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 8:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal lawsuit challenging a North Carolina charter school’s dress code will head back to a trial court.
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 4:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s redistricting trial Common Cause v. Lewis concluded Friday with heightened tensions, a day after the court threw out part of the testimony of one of the General Assembly’s key witnesses.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 @ 9:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you can’t get a law, then go to court.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 6:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s legal team is counting on the N.C. Supreme Court to overturn a recent trial-court ruling in a dispute over state elections management
Published: Sunday, November 26th, 2017 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge state court panel will decide whether the first lawsuit challenging N.C. election maps this decade can continue
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Less than a week after hearing arguments in a lawsuit pitting Gov. Roy Cooper against the General Assembly, the N.C. Supreme Court has ordered a three-judge panel to reconsider the case. The governor supports the decision
Published: Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 @ 12:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge Superior Court panel has blocked the overhaul of the State Board of Elections until the case can go to trial or unless a higher court overturns a preliminary injunction
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2017 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory and a host of business leaders were quick to praise the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday blocking President Obama's signature climate change program from moving forward until a trial in federal court is concluded.
Published: Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 @ 1:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the North Carolina General Assembly reconvened for a special session to pass a new Congressional map to comply with a federal trial court's order.
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2016 @ 7:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. Supreme Court will take a second look at a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's 2011 redistricting plan, as the state made an emergency appeal to the justices to stay a trial-court order invalidating the 1st and 12th Congressional Districts
Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 7:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voters in November will be able to decide on a proposed constitutional amendment giving North Carolinians charged with a felony the option of waiving a jury trial and allowing a Superior Court judge to render a verdict.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 1:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Wake County Superior Court judge Monday refused to dismiss legal challenges to the state's Opportunity Scholarships, aka vouchers, meaning that the lawsuit is likely to go to trial. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood issued Monday's ruling after allowing the Institute for Justice, an Arlington...
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 3:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A defamation lawsuit filed 13 years ago by Gene Boyce and three other Raleigh attorneys against Attorney General Roy Cooper, his 2000 campaign committee, and campaign worker Julia White finally is scheduled for a jury trial in April. On Friday, Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III, who was...
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2013 @ 9:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The court ruled that a trial judge may close some court proceedings from the public. Before doing so, however, the judge must provide a detailed factual record justifying his decision that there was an overriding interest in shielding information from the public from testimony provided under oath.
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 @ 1:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The campaign finance trials of two associates of and fundraisers for Gov. Bev Perdue have been placed on hold until a state appeals court can rule on motions filed by both defendants.
Published: Friday, June 8th, 2012 @ 10:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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