The North Carolina State Board of Elections will consider on Wednesday a proposed settlement of a lawsuit the US Justice Department filed against the board in May. The settlement could head to a federal judge as early as Thursday. The suit challenges alleged deficiencies in North Carolina’s voter registrations.
A federal judge approved Tuesday a settlement ending a Davidson County family’s lawsuit against the county school system. The suit stemmed from the suspension in 2024 of a 16-year-old high school student who used the words “illegal alien” in class.
Three former employees have dropped their lawsuit against the North Carolina Symphony. They had accused the Symphony of firing them in 2022 because of their refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has delayed oral arguments that had been scheduled next week in a pair of lawsuits pitting the Atlantic Coast Conference against member schools Clemson and Florida State.
UNC Health and state health regulators are dropping their appeal in a certificate-of-need battle with Duke Health over 40 new hospital beds in Durham County. A court document filed Thursday indicates the legal fight is over.
A federal judge has agreed to retain jurisdiction of a settled dispute involving Asheville and activists who were banned from city parks in 2022. The activists had sued the city for violating their constitutional rights.
A settlement could be on the way for a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s use of in-patient psychiatric treatment for children in foster care. Lawyers on both sides of the dispute filed paperwork Monday seeking to delay court proceedings through July 15.
A federal lawsuit challenging Asheville’s decision to ban local activists from using city parks is near a settlement. A notice filed Tuesday in US District Court prompted a judge in the case to cancel a hearing that had been scheduled later this week.
Five county school boards and trustees at one state community college are dropping their court appeals for refunds of money paid to the state retirement system in pension-spiking cases. If they had won their legal battle, refunds would have totaled more than $434,000, not counting at least five years of interest.
RALEIGH — Gov. Mike Easley and members of the General Assembly will again have to tangle with a large state budget gap when they return to work later this month, and millions of dollars from North Carolina's share of the national tobacco settlement will likely help close it. Policymakers took a combined $240 million from the Tobacco Trust Fund and Health & Wellness Trust Fund in 2002 and 2003. But they have failed to touch the foundation that they designated to receive the other half of the state's tobacco settlement money: the Golden LEAF Foundation, which will seek to protect its funding again in 2005.
