A short conversation could hold the key to a dispute over hundreds of millions of dollars in education spending.
The N.C. Supreme Court will decide in the days ahead whether a judge can order the state to spend an additional $785 million for education-related items. Justices also will decide whether the courts can bypass the General Assembly and order the money transferred out of the state treasury. Those are the key questions in the latest stage of the long-running Leandro school funding case. The case that dates back to 1994 returned to the state’s highest court Wednesday for oral arguments.
State government’s new controller is asking the N.C. Supreme Court to jettison a proposed forced transfer of $785 million out of the state treasury for court-ordered education purposes. Acting Controller Nels Roseland’s request arrived Monday as parties in the long-running Leandro lawsuit submitted their latest round of briefs in the case. Roseland took over the...
The latest filing in a case of now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts urges the state Supreme Court to focus on its recent precedent involving statewide election maps. The reference to the Supreme Court’s Feb. 14 decision in the Harper v. Hall redistricting case appears in a document filed Wednesday. The filing responds to critics who...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated. State Controller Linda Combs and Republican legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court not to step into the latest dispute involving the long-running Leandro school funding case. At stake is $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds. The N.C. Court of Appeals issued a “writ of prohibition” on Nov....
