North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina trial-court judges refused April 13 to delay state legislative elections in and around Raleigh next month while litigation challenging several House districts continues. A three-judge panel declined to halt the May 8 primary for at least four ...

RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina prison system must recognize humanism as a faith group and allow its adherents behind bars to meet and study their beliefs, a federal judge has ruled in an order released March 29. The American Humanist ...

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RALEIGH (AP) School districts across North Carolina will present next year’s funding requests in the coming weeks to local county commissioners, with the potential for costly and lengthy litigation if they can’t see eye-to-eye on spending. So the General Assembly’s ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on March 16 announced his initial choices for a new state board that administers both elections and ethics laws, even as he presses his latest legal challenge against the law that created the combined ...

RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will appoint members to a combined state elections and ethics board this week, even while he continues to fight in court over the legality of the board’s latest iteration. Cooper’s office announced the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Republicans continue to attack Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper over a $57.8 million agreement his office reached with utilities poised to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Now, the GOP hopes that criticism will garner the attention of ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A three-judge panel should strike down in its entirety a law that combines North Carolina state elections and ethics duties into one agency, attorneys for Gov. Roy Cooper said March 6. The Democratic governor’s legal motions came a ...

RALEIGH (AP) A panel of state judges decided March 5 that a recent North Carolina Supreme Court ruling favoring Gov. Roy Cooper means only a portion of a 2017 law combining the state ethics and elections boards is now struck down. ...

RALEIGH (AP) A Washington-based group asked North Carolina ethics officials March 5 to investigate some of state House Speaker Tim Moore’s business interests and interactions with state environmental regulators over the site of an old poultry plant. The nonprofit Campaign ...

RALEIGH (AP) Arguments over the legitimacy of a December 2016 special legislative session called by North Carolina Republicans centered Feb. 21 on what “adequate notice” and the constitutional right for state residents to “instruct” their legislators mean. A panel of three ...