North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein filed an amicus brief Nov. 21 in support of a suit against a pharmaceutical company which he said should be held liable under state laws for misleading consumers about their product. The brief was ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina lawmakers once expecting to be done legislating for months when they adjourned their session in June are back at work less than four weeks later. The General Assembly is starting a special session Tuesday for the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s top state lawyer is challenging a decision allowing Duke Energy to charge consumers billions of dollars to clean up coal ash dumps while tacking on a potential profit margin. State Attorney General Josh Stein said Friday ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A state panel that will provide explanations to voters on six proposed amendments to the North Carolina Constitution on November ballots is inviting the public to offer suggestions. The Constitutional Amendments Publication Commission meets July 31 to prepare ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s top attorney says he’s going to challenge a decision allowing the country’s No. 2 electricity company to charge consumers hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up mountains of coal-ash waste. State utility regulators last week ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Seventeen states, including North Carolina, sued President Donald Trump’s administration June 26 in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Late that same day, a federal judge in ...

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North Carolina’s attorney general filed a lawsuit May 15, along with five other attorneys general, alleging that the maker of OxyContin is partly responsible for the opioid epidemic. Attorney General Josh Stein said in a news release that Purdue Pharma ...

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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein signed a letter in opposition to pending federal legislation that he said would allow debt collection attorneys to use the state courts to intimidate customers into paying. The pending litigation Stein opposes is the ...

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