The N.C. Court of Appeals has agreed to block further pretrial discovery in a lawsuit challenging the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. The court granted a request from parents defending the school choice program. Scholarship defenders had complained about the legal tactics employed by plaintiffs challenging OSP. Plaintiffs’ lawyers had been engaging in “extensive,” “burdensome, ”...
Local officials in North Carolina and beyond got a clear message from a federal judge: infringing on property rights may be costly — for you.
A New Bern-based eye surgeon continues his campaign against North Carolina’s certificate-of-need restrictions. A newly filed brief at the N.C. Court of Appeals aims to help keep that campaign alive. “The State wants this case to be about whether the legislature could have thought it was rational to adopt the CON Law over 40 years...
The burden is lower for North Carolina braiders, who must complete fewer classroom hours. But the barriers are still too high.
Seven years after the state's highest court upheld a scholarship program, it faces another strikingly similar legal attack.
Drone technology may be new, but the principles at stake are as old as the nation itself.
A surgeon’s challenge to make health care more affordable for his patients is another casualty of the coronavirus. But another surgeon has carried on the fight, suing to overturn the certificate of need laws that restrict the supply of health care in North Carolina. Surgeon Dr. Gajendra Singh sued to dismantle the CON laws that...
The coronavirus did what years of lawmaking and lawsuits failed to do — pushed North Carolina to temporarily waive barriers on telemedicine and the controversial certificate of need laws that restrict the supply of health care. Ambulatory surgery centers can now act as temporary hospitals. Out-of-state telemedicine providers can treat patients. Adult care homes, mental...
It’s been more than a decade since 22 people with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office were ousted because of rampant corruption. The state and federal investigation operation “Tarnished Badge” led to multiple criminal convictions, including perjury, kidnapping, drug trafficking, money laundering, armed robbery, and pirating satellite television signals. The investigation took several years, and investigators...
Occupational licensing may have cost North Carolina more than 42,000 jobs and millions in economic losses, a new study from the Institute for Justice says. The study from the nonprofit, libertarian public interest law firm looked at the economic cost of occupational licensing across the country. According to the study, a conservative measure of lost...
Carolina Beach has overturned its law prohibiting out-of-town food trucks from serving the community after the Institute for Justice filed a lawsuit on behalf of food truck owners. The Carolina Beach Town Council held an evening closed door session Tuesday, Aug. 28, and scrapped the law, which would have allowed only brick-and-mortar restaurants to operate...
