North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

RALEIGH (AP) — With cases and other key metrics trending downward in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper on announced on Feb. 24 that the state will ease gathering and occupancy restrictions and end its 10 p.m. statewide curfew starting Feb. ...

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s top elections administrator on Tuesday urged state lawmakers to move all of this year’s municipal elections to 2022 and bump back next year’s primaries from March to May due to delayed Census data. Census numbers ...

Tagged with: Elections

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — A group of Black firefighters in North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against their city and their fire chief, alleging that he has not made an effort to prevent racial discrimination, harassment and retaliation within his department. ...

Tagged with: discrimination

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Merrick Garland was nominated by the White House for a job, Republicans wouldn’t even meet with him. Now, the once-snubbed Supreme Court pick will finally come before the Senate, this time as President Joe ...

Tagged with: Merrick Garland

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor. The court’s action is the ...

Tagged with: Donald Trump

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Expect more redistricting litigation in North Carolina backed by a national Democratic group that Eric Holder leads unless state Republicans accept anti-gerrymandering reforms this year, the former U.S. attorney general said Friday. Speaking to the University ...

Tagged with: partisan gerrymandering

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development will begin enforcing a ban on housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The move is a major reversal of the position under the Trump administration’s housing secretary, ...

Tagged with: HUD

RALEIGH (AP) — More local governments in North Carolina could bypass newspapers and instead post public notices online in legislation advancing in the state House. A pair of bills approved by a judiciary committee this week would allow city councils ...

PITTSBORO (AP) — An investigation into a ransomware attack on a North Carolina county’s computer network showed personal information posted for sale on the “dark web,” the county said. The Chatham County network was hit on Oct. 28 with ransomware ...

Tagged with: ransomware

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly’s state government watchdog agency will soon be shuttered, according to the offices of the legislature’s Republican leaders. State law created the nonpartisan Program Evaluation Division in 2007, making North Carolina’s legislature one ...

Tagged with: North Carolina State Legislature