A federal Appeals Court has ruled that Greenville police officer David Johnson had qualified immunity that protected him against a lawsuit tied to a fatal shooting in 2019. The decision reverses a trial judge, who had rejected Johnson’s immunity claims.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has turned down a request to rehear a case challenging Greenville’s red-light camera enforcement program. Plaintiffs had asked the court to revisit the issue of North Carolinians seeking refunds from the government. The high court denied the request without comment in an order issued Thursday.
Plaintiffs who lost a state Supreme Court battle against Greenville’s red-light camera enforcement program are seeking a rehearing. They ask North Carolina’s high court to revisit the issue of people seeking refunds from the government.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the funding model Greenville used for its now-discontinued red-light camera enforcement program. The 5-1 decision Thursday reversed an earlier ruling from the state Appeals Court.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether a cost-sharing agreement that funded Greenville’s red light camera enforcement program complied with the state constitution. Justices heard an hour of oral arguments on the topic Wednesday.
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law is adding its support to plaintiffs challenging Greenville’s now-dismantled red-light camera enforcement program. The state’s highest court has agreed to hear a case focusing on the amount of red-light camera citation proceeds heading to local schools.
Greenville and the Pitt County school board urged the N.C. Supreme Court Wednesday to overturn a lower court ruling that threw out the city’s red-light camera enforcement program. Greenville ended the program last November, eight months after the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled the program unconstitutional.
The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Greenville’s appeal of a lower-court ruling against the city’s red-light camera enforcement program. Greenville ended its program last November, eight months after the state Appeals Court ruled the program unconstitutional.
The N.C. Supreme Court could decide in the weeks ahead whether to hear Greenville’s legal defense of its red-light camera enforcement program. That’s despite the fact that the city shut down the program in November. Red-light critics filed paperwork with the state's highest court Wednesday.
Nearly two months after Greenville shut down its red-light camera program, the city continues to defend the program in court. Greenville filed paperwork Wednesday asking the N.C. Supreme Court to consider the issue.
Greenville City Council voted 5-1 on Monday to end its red-light camera enforcement program. The program had faced legal challenges, including a ruling against the city last March from the N.C. Court of Appeals.
