North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina legislature returned briefly to business July 24 so Republicans could wrest the seemingly ordinary work of adding titles to proposed constitutional amendments on November ballots out of the hands of a state panel controlled by Democrats. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A proposal to alter how vacancies to North Carolina trial and appeals court judgeships are filled is just one vote away from going on ballots statewide this November in a referendum. The House gave its initial approval to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republicans in one General Assembly chamber stayed late June 25 to put several proposed constitutional amendments on North Carolina ballots in November, including those to require photo identification to vote and to change how judicial vacancies are filled. The ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed seven bills just before a June 25 deadline, deciding to block Republican proposals to alter early in-person voting and restrict nuisance litigation that neighbors of big livestock operations could file in North Carolina. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina legislative Republicans on June 21 advanced their goal of permanently requiring voters to show photo identification — a proposal previously thwarted this decade by veto and federal judges who declared a similar mandate racially discriminatory. Legislation to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina judicial primaries won’t happen this year, based on a federal judge’s ruling favoring Republican legislative leaders who passed a law canceling those nominee elections for this year only. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles announced June 19 she ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republicans are poised again to advance a photo identification requirement to vote in North Carolina, despite their previous attempt getting struck down by federal judges. House Speaker Tim Moore and other GOP representatives filed June 7 a proposed amendment to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) There’s another new official political party in North Carolina that can field candidates in November’s general elections. The state elections board voted June 6 to recognize the Constitution Party of North Carolina after group members collected more than 12,000 ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the state budget bill June 6 for the second year in a row, blaming legislative Republicans for a spending plan he says doesn’t do enough for teacher pay, school safety and the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A panel of North Carolina trial court judges has rejected arguments by a government reform group and local residents that a special session of the General Assembly violated the state constitution. The case centers on a December 2016 ...

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