The N.C. Supreme Court will hear two high-profile COVID-related cases in the months ahead. One deals with the forced shutdown of an Alamance County speedway. The other targets student fees paid at the University of North Carolina’s flagship universities when they were closed for in-person instruction.
Watauga County and three of its towns urge the N.C. Supreme Court to reject Boone’s request to take up a dispute involving local sales taxes. Boone is trying to drag the state’s highest court into a "messy, local political squabble," according to a document filed Tuesday with the state’s highest court.
The Town of Boone is urging the N.C. Supreme Court to consider a lawsuit challenging Watauga County’s distribution of local sales tax revenue. Town officials filed a petition Tuesday with the state’s highest court.
The state’s highest court on Tuesday took up the issue of whether the N.C. General Assembly exceeded its constitutional limits when it revoked the Town of Boone’s extraterritorial zoning powers in 2014. Lauren Clemmons of the N.C. Department of Justice and Watauga County Attorney Stacy Eggers IV urged the N.C. Supreme Court to reverse a...
RALEIGH — North Wilkesboro town commissioner Jeffrey Elmore doesn’t think his Republican primary opponent Dan Soucek, director of Operation Christmas Child for Samaritan’s Purse, has what it takes to swim with the sharks in Raleigh.
