The U.S. Supreme Court will review two cases next month with N.C. ties. Either case could return the Tar Heel State to national headlines when the nation’s highest court starts its next term in the fall. Justices have set June 15 as the date to consider whether to take up Quad Graphics v. N.C. Department of Revenue and Diaz-Tomas v. North Carolina.
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide soon whether to take N.C. cases dealing with sales taxes and DWI prosecutions.
Lawyers for N.C. state government are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a case involving the prosecution of impaired driving cases in the Tar Heel State. Two DWI defendants claim prosecutors left them in legal limbo when they refused to enter guilty pleas.
RALEIGH — What’s a vehicle? That issue was at the heart of a case from Hyde County, involving a man who contended he shouldn’t have been convicted of drunken driving while he was operating a small electric-powered scooter. In a ruling Dec. 20, the N.C. Court of Appeals rejected his argument, finding that though Segways and lawnmowers were exempt from the state DWI law, it did apply to the scooters.
