The nation’s highest court is scheduled to review in December an appeal in a case involving the North Carolina State Health Plan’s coverage of medical treatments typically pursued by transgender patients. Justices will decide after that review whether to take the case.
Plaintiffs are asking the nation’s highest court not to consider a case challenging the North Carolina State Health Plan’s ban on funding medical treatments typically sought by transgender patients. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the plaintiffs and against the State Health Plan in April.
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.
The US Supreme Court will not step into a Second Amendment dispute now sitting with the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. It’s a case that prompted a friend-of-the-court brief at the nation’s highest court from the John Locke Foundation.
A Stokes County attorney and businessman has dropped his lawsuit aiming to guarantee the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ authority to block Donald Trump from the state’s election ballot. Brian Martin filed a notice of voluntary dismissal Wednesday in Wake County Superior Court.
The John Locke Foundation has helped file a friend-of-the-court brief at the nation’s highest court in a case challenging Maryland gun restrictions. Second Amendment supporters filed a petition on Feb. 8 asking the US Supreme Court to take the case, Bianchi v. Brown, before the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals could issue a ruling.
The US Supreme Court has declined to take the case of Stephen Porter, a North Carolina State University professor who claimed he faced retaliation for critical statements involving social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion. The high court rejected Porter’s case Monday without comment. A split 2-1 panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled against Porter in July 2023.
A former state Supreme Court justice promises a lawsuit tied to the concept of "fair" elections. State and federal courts have ruled out that type of suit in redistricting cases.
The US Supreme Court will not take up a case involving a challenge to North Carolina’s so-called “ag-gag” law. That means an appellate court decision will stand banning that law’s application to “newsgathering” operations by animal rights activists.
The US Supreme Court has decided not to take a COVID-related shutdown case filed by Virginia owners of a Dare County beach house. The owners had challenged Dare County’s actions in 2020 as an unconstitutional taking of private property.
The nation’s highest court will consider Tuesday a pair of petitions related to a legal dispute surrounding North Carolina’s “ag-gag law.” Both state Attorney General Josh Stein and the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation have asked the court to take the case in its upcoming term.
