The university system defends deference to its "consistent and longstanding reading of its regulations" in a dispute with a fired professor.
The University of North Carolina System defends the legal concept of administrative deference in its latest state Supreme Court filing in the case of a fired Winston-Salem State University professor. Lower courts have ruled against Professor Alvin Mitchell.
Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawyers are defending his decision to keep bars closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cooper’s legal team filed paperwork this week with North Carolina’s highest court.
The US Supreme Court overturned Friday a controversial 40-year-old precedent that called for courts to defer to government agencies’ interpretations when considering ambiguous laws. The end of so-called “Chevron deference” arrives as North Carolina’s top court prepares to consider its own deference case.
Groups with no direct connection to a fired Winston-Salem State University professor's legal dispute have taken an interest in its outcome.
A fired Winston-Salem State University professor cites free-speech and separation-of-powers concerns as he challenges his dismissal at North Carolina’s highest court. It’s a case that has attracted attention from the John Locke Foundation.
A fired Winston-Salem State University professor relied on comments from state Supreme Court Justice Richard Dietz when appealing to the state's highest court.
The case of a fired Winston-Salem State University professor could help North Carolina’s highest court clarify the legal issue of “administrative deference.” The John Locke Foundation filed a brief in the case seeking a review of that issue.
RALEIGH — Reporting about U.S. Supreme Court debates often revolves around disagreements between liberal and conservative voting blocs. But Damon Root, senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com, says most debates actually involve competing concepts of judicial activism and judicial restraint. Root has written a book on the topic titled Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court. He discussed his work with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
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