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NC ranks in top ten “social media obsessed” states as TikTok ban looms
As House passes bill to ban TikTok, north Carolina is ranked in the top ten "social media obsessed" states.
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League of Municipalities supports Greensboro in impact fee legal fight
The North Carolina League of Municipalities is backing Greensboro as the city urges the state’s highest court to take up a dispute over local impact fees. Greensboro and the league want to overturn a February court ruling favoring developers who sued the city.
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Lack of CON public hearing amounted to ‘agency error,’ Appeals Court concludes
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has determined that state regulators should have held a public hearing before awarding a disputed certificate of need in 2022 for a new hospital emergency department in Buncombe County. Yet Tuesday's unanimous unpublished decision from the state’s second-highest court stopped short of ruling that the lack of a public hearing would force the state to drop the CON.
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State Appeals Court rejects lawsuit challenging Alamance Confederate monument
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit challenging the Confederate monument outside the Alamance County Courthouse in Graham. Tuesday’s unanimous decision affirmed a trial judge’s ruling against monument critics.
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NC State swimmer sues NCAA over Title IX
The lawsuit was Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and accuses the NCAA of instituting "a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level."
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NC Labor Department rejects petitions asking for new mask mandates
North Carolina Commissioner of Labor Josh Dobson has rejected two petitions filed by left-leaning groups to reinstitute mask mandates and other distancing requirements for North Carolina businesses. The groups filed petitions asking the department to implement a string of measures that would “prevent the spread of airborne infectious diseases” in the workplace during any declared public health...
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Locke joins SCOTUS brief in Maryland gun case
The John Locke Foundation has helped file a friend-of-the-court brief at the nation’s highest court in a case challenging Maryland gun restrictions. Second Amendment supporters filed a petition on Feb. 8 asking the US Supreme Court to take the case, Bianchi v. Brown, before the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals could issue a ruling.
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Judges see past Cooper’s rhetoric in appointments battle
A bipartisan three-judge panel upheld five of seven state board appointment structures the governor targeted in a lawsuit.
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CON court filing criticizes NC health regulators, Duke
A medical imaging company has filed paperwork in North Carolina’s highest court criticizing state regulators and Duke Health for their legal strategy in a certificate-of-need dispute. Duke and the state Department of Health and Human Services challenge the state Court of Appeals’ September 2023 decision to affirm a CON ruling favoring Pinnacle Health Services. Pinnacle needed the CON to operate a magnetic resonance imaging scanner in Wake Forest.
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Crackdown: Charlotte reinstates penalties for these six public behaviors
Six newly re-enacted criminal penalties in the Charlotte City Code have now gone into effect, including ones for solicitation from a median strip, open containers, and behavior related to sleeping in city parks.
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Judges uphold five of seven targeted boards in Cooper v. Berger appointments fight
A unanimous three-judge panel has upheld five of seven newly constituted state boards Gov. Roy Cooper had targeted in a lawsuit. The Democratic governor had argued that all seven boards violated the state constitution because Republican lawmakers took away Cooper’s appointment powers.
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NC, Iowa cases challenge federal agency’s actions ignoring Supreme Court
Property owners in North Carolina and Iowa are working with the Pacific Legal Foundation to challenge Army Corps of Engineers actions that appear to ignore US Supreme Court precedent. Federal court documents filed in both states argue that the Army Corps is relying on an interpretation of Clean Water Act rules “soundly rebuked” by the high court in the 2023 case Sackett v. EPA.
