Three Republicans are appealing a judge’s decision this month to throw out their lawsuit against the state GOP’s last leadership election. The three plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal Thursday.
The state’s highest court has granted a temporary stay to a former state Department of Transportation worker challenging his dismissal. DOT had cited Thurman Crofton Savage’s violations of bus driver recertification rules when firing him.
Splits were evident among 14 judges of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, as they held a rare “en banc” hearing Thursday in a case involving North Carolina State Health Plan coverage for treatment sought by transgender people.
Eight days after a split state Court of Appeals panel upheld North Carolina's SAFE Child Act as constitutional, the Gaston County school board is appealing that decision to North Carolina’s highest court. The Gaston school board is a defendant in McKinney v. Goins, a case challenging the 2019 Safe Child Act as unconstitutional.
As the state Department of Transportation pushes ahead with its $68 million Harkers Island Bridge replacement project, the state Supreme Court focused Wednesday on a battle over roughly $90,000. That’s the amount of lawyers’ fees a Superior Court awarded plaintiffs in 2020 during their bid to block the bridge project from moving forward.
The Wilson County school board hopes North Carolina’s top court will take up its case challenging an application of the state pension-spiking law. An August court ruling could force Wilson schools to pay an additional $400,000 to help fund a former assistant superintendent’s retirement.
The judicial system in North Carolina would see plenty of changes if the proposed budget bill is passed, including a boost in the mandatory retirement age.
A unanimous state Court of Appeals panel has ruled in favor of Mocksville in the town’s legal dispute with a fired police officer. The officer had claimed he was dismissed after filing a complaint that he was forced to work while sick with COVID-19.
The state Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 against state health care regulators and Duke Health in a fight over a certificate of need in Wake County. The decision allows a medical imaging company to add an MRI scanner in Wake Forest.
Lawyers for North Carolina’s top legislative leaders have signaled that they will seek a new state Supreme Court review of the long-running Leandro education funding case. A footnote in a court filing Friday mentions lawmakers' plan to ask the high court to bypass the state Appeals Court in the latest Leandro dispute.
US District Judge William Osteen has criticized both state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls and the state Judicial Standards Commission for recent court filings in Earls’ First Amendment lawsuit. Osteen labeled language in the court filings “inflammatory.”
