NC House convenes for opening day of short session
House convened for short session, will vote next week on budget corrections.
A judge has temporarily blocked certification of a Robeson County commissioner primary election. The losing candidate in the March 5 Democratic primary has leveled accusations of bribery against the winning incumbent and another sitting commissioner.
Currituck County and its Tourism Development Authority want North Carolina’s highest court to consider a dispute involving local occupancy taxes. The state Court of Appeals ruled against the county in March.
Sen. Overcash to push legislation for constitutional amendment for citizen-only voting.
The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation is siding with Pender County in its legal fight with a company seeking a permit for a 2,300-acre solar farm. The Farm Bureau filed paperwork Monday at the state Court of Appeals to submit a friend-of-the-court brief in the 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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Questions during oral arguments Wednesday suggest the North Carolina Supreme Court does not favor mandating a 30-foot buffer between an Orange County subdivision and a neighboring horse farm. Plaintiff Alison Arter sued the county and property owners involved with the Array subdivision in 2021.
North Carolina’s highest court will decide in the months ahead whether the town of Wake Forest could use a sidewalk requirement to reject a proposed charter school in 2020. The topic generated an hour of oral arguments Tuesday at the state Supreme Court.
A man who lost two fingers after a 2020 protest in Charlotte can proceed with a federal First Amendment lawsuit against the city and police officers. A federal judge issued an order Friday allowing that portion of the lawsuit to move forward.
Johnston County school board member Ronald Johnson can proceed with his federal lawsuit against the town of Smithfield. But a federal judge’s order Thursday dropped school board members, the district attorney, and all but one individual plaintiff from the case.
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