Dr. Gajendra Singh wants to help patients get an MRI scan for a fraction of the price hospitals and big health care networks charge. But state regulators and powerful lobbying allies restrain him. On Monday, July 30, Singh joined with the Institute for Justice to file a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court seeking to...
A new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation ranks Raleigh 11th out of 20 cities for ease in operating food trucks within city limits. It’s the only North Carolina city ranked in the report. With help from the Institute of Justice and the National Food Truck Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation...
Stand-alone makeup schools can operate in North Carolina without a government-issued license, the N.C. Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners now says. The decision, resulting from court-ordered mediation, ends a federal lawsuit filed by Jasna Bukvic-Bhayani of Charlotte. As Carolina Journal reported last year, Bukvic-Bhayani wanted to open a makeup artistry school, but the state cosmetic...
Jasna Bukvic-Bhayani wanted to open a makeup artistry school, but the N.C. Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners wouldn’t allow it unless she agreed to teach esthetics and bought thousands of dollars of unrelated equipment. Now, along with the Institute for Justice, Bukvic-Bhayani is suing the board. Carolina Journal Associate Editor Lindsay Marchello sat down with Bukvic-Bhayani to talk about...
The U.S. House of Representatives just took a knife to funding for the federal civil asset forfeiture program — a move that could help protect innocent North Carolinians and their property. Lawmakers on Tuesday passed an amendment — part of a larger appropriations bill — that puts a clamp on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ plan...
Tour guides in Charleston, S.C., face arrest if they are not licensed by the city to share the town’s history with visitors. The occupational licensing rule requires applicants to pass a 200-question written exam with a grade of 80 percent or higher — in addition to passing an oral exam from city officials. Test questions...
The latest court case brought about by the North Carolina Chapter of the Institute for Justice involves two cherished traditions in the state, freedom and sports. It also concerns a rapidly evolving form of journalism, online news media.
Contributing editor Karen Welsh says the Institute for Justice — a nonprofit public-interest law firm dedicated to economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, unlawful taxation, freedom of speech, and constitutional limits on the power of government — is coming to North Carolina early next year.
