A woman arrested after a 2020 Raleigh protest of then-Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 shutdown order heads back to court next week. She will ask a Wake County judge to allow her to proceed with a lawsuit against state and local officials.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether a contractor working for the state Department of Transportation must foot part of the bill for a deputy sheriff’s roadside injury.
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin argues in a new court filing that the North Carolina State Board of Elections plans to defy a court order in an ongoing election dispute. Griffin challenges the board’s plan to consider no more than 1,675 targeted ballots from last fall’s statewide election.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is asking a federal Appeals Court for a stay and injunction in the election dispute involving her seat on the state’s highest court. The trial judge in the case has rejected requests to place his recent rulings on hold.