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Eight GOP lawmakers urge NC Supreme Court to take forced vaccination case

Eight Republican members of North Carolina’s House of Representatives would like to see the state Supreme Court take up a case dealing with the forced COVID vaccination of a 14-year-old boy in 2021. Lower courts have ruled against the teen and his mother.

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Mother appeals case of teen’s forced COVID shot to state Supreme Court

A Guilford County mother hopes the state Supreme Court will take the case of her teenage son’s forced COVID vaccine shot. The mother and son sued the Guilford County school board and the Old North State Medical Society over the 2021 incident.

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Full state Appeals Court asked to rehear recent CON case

A hospital involved in a certificate-of-need legal dispute is asking the full North Carolina Court of Appeals to rehear a case involving a proposed emergency department in Buncombe County. But a competitor and the state Department of Health and Human Services want the court to publish its original decision.

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Judge rejects state motion to dismiss foster care mental health lawsuit

A federal judge has denied North Carolina state officials’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state’s use of in-patient psychiatric treatment for children in foster care. Plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit in December 2022. Critics want the state to shift its focus away from the treatment centers to provide more support services in the children’s home communities.

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Advocates: ‘One Door’ policy would get welfare recipients back to work

North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday heard from experts on the so-called “One Door” welfare reform policy implemented by Utah, a policy that advocates say helped to streamline the system and get more welfare recipients back into the labor force. 

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