The N.C. Supreme Court will not accept a new friend-of-the-court brief from Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein in next week’s rehearing of a redistricting case. The court rejected Cooper and Stein’s brief without comment Thursday.
A ruling by a federal three-judge panel in the Covington v. North Carolina legislative redistricting lawsuit threatens to upset state election laws on a national scale through unprecedented court overreach, eight secretaries of state say in a legal filing. Those officials on Wednesday, Jan. 31, submitted an amicus brief, to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting...
RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation on Friday filed an amicus brief with the N.C. Supreme Court, urging the state justices to uphold an appeals court ruling in the Map Act case. Earlier this year, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the N.C. Department of Transportation’s use of the state’s Map Act amounted to a taking of property. Therefore, NCDOT owes property owners just compensation for their property.
