The city of Asheville wants a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from five white applicants for the city’s Human Relations Commission. City officials dispute the plaintiffs’ argument that they were rejected from the group because of their race.
The small town of Robersonville, population 1,249, in Martin County, is once again in charge of its finances as the state restored financial control to the town at Tuesday’s Local Government Commission meeting.
One of new state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs’ last actions as a state Appeals Court judge was a ruling favoring WBTV in its public records dispute with the city of Charlotte. Riggs wrote the opinion for a unanimous three-judge panel favoring the television station’s owner, Gray Media. Appellate judges on Tuesday reversed a trial court decision favoring the city.
Five people living in or near Asheville have sued the city in federal court for refusing to appoint them to a city advisory board. They argue that the city rejected them for the Human Relations Commission because they are white.
The state Supreme Court will not dive into a legal dispute involving Wake County’s scrap metal contract. A lower court order will allow losing bidder Wall Recyling to continue its lawsuit against the county.
Charlotte officials are asking the state’s second-highest court to reverse a lower court ruling favoring a suspended firefighter. The case stems from a controversial social media post about Charlotte Fire Department recruiting.
The owner of video sweepstakes games targeted in a Robeson County case is asking the state Court of Appeals to reject a request from state law enforcement leaders. Those leaders want the state’s second-highest court to block a trial court order allowing the sweepstakes business to continue operations.
A split panel of the state Court of Appeals has voted to block a trial court order in Forsyth County favoring video sweepstakes operators. Gov. Roy Cooper and state law enforcement leaders had asked the state’s second-highest court to take that step.
Alamance County commissioners filed paperwork with the state’s second-highest court this week defending their decision not to remove a Confederate monument from the county courthouse property in Graham in 2020. The North Carolina Court of Appeals is considering a challenge to that decision from plaintiffs led by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP.
Within three days of this week’s state Appeals Court ruling against the Wilson County school board in a pension-spiking case, state lawyers have highlighted the ruling in two other outstanding cases involving Harnett and Union county schools.
A federal class-action lawsuit led by a Cleveland County Emergency Services worker would head to trial in November 2024, under a schedule released this week. If successful, current and former employees could collect back pay in the dispute involving overtime.
