Bar owners who sued Gov. Roy Cooper for shutting them down during the COVID-19 pandemic have won a partial victory at the state Court of Appeals. A unanimous appellate panel agreed the governor had violated bar owners’ rights to the fruits of their labor and equal protection of the laws. At the same time, the Appeals Court rejected the bar owners’ argument that the shutdown amounted to an unconstitutional taking of their property.
Top legislative leaders will ask the North Carolina Court of Appeals to review a three-judge panel’s ruling favoring Gov. Roy Cooper in a legal fight over the State Elections Board. Lawmakers filed a notice of appeal Tuesday, the same day the public learned about the panel’s decision.
Gov. Roy Cooper and lawyers representing state government’s executive branch are appealing a February court ruling upholding appointments to five of seven state boards Cooper targeted in a lawsuit. State legislative leaders also have appealed the ruling.
Gov. Roy Cooper called for a moratorium on spending on the Opportunity Scholarship Program during a meeting of the State Board of Education on March 7, even as demand for the voucher program more than doubled this year. “Most private schools are not better than our public schools,” said Cooper, a Democrat. “[This] is a...
With all eyes on North Carolina for its part in the Super Tuesday primary, Vice-President Kamala Harris paid a visit to Durham on Friday.
A three-judge panel has denied Gov. Roy Cooper’s request for an injunction blocking recent actions from the state Environmental Management Commission. The panel made that unanimous decision Friday after a nearly three-hour hearing in a lawsuit pitting Cooper against Republican legislative leaders. The decision also dissolved a temporary restraining order against the EMC that had remained in effect for a month.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper hit the road in February on a campaign in eastern North Carolina to blast Opportunity Scholarships, the state’s voucher program that provides a pathway to a private school education for tens of thousands of families across the state. The governor’s office claims that vouchers will have a draconian impact on local...
Gov. Roy Cooper and state legislative leaders have filed competing motions to end a legal dispute over changes to North Carolina’s state elections board. A hearing in the case is scheduled Feb. 28 in Raleigh.
The White House announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would soon have to cut back operations at the southern border due to the Senate’s failure to pass a border bill, which also included billions in aid to Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine, and that has many including U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC and Congressman Dan Bishop, R, NC-08 crying foul.
Gov. Roy Cooper and state Attorney General Josh Stein hope to sway a federal Appeals Court to rule against Republican state legislators in a battle over North Carolina’s new state Senate election map. Cooper and Stein, both Democrats, filed a brief Monday evening with the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Legislative leaders and plaintiffs challenging the Senate map filed their own briefs several hours later.
Gov. Roy Cooper issued an Executive Order Monday that is geared toward improving the lives of former prison inmates as they reenter society.
