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Appeals Court orders new vote calculations in NC Supreme Court election dispute

A North Carolina Appeals Court panel has split, 2-1, in ordering state elections officials to recalculate vote totals in the disputed 2024 state Supreme Court election. The 103-page decision Friday responds to ballot challenges from Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin.

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Appeals Court rejects former Lenoir-Rhyne women’s basketball players’ racial discrimination lawsuit

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit from former Lenoir-Rhyne women’s basketball players who claimed they were forced off the team in 2021 because of racism and retaliation. The decision Tuesday upheld a trial judge’s ruling favoring the school.

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Lack of CON public hearing amounted to ‘agency error,’ Appeals Court concludes

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has determined that state regulators should have held a public hearing before awarding a disputed certificate of need in 2022 for a new hospital emergency department in Buncombe County. Yet Tuesday's unanimous unpublished decision from the state’s second-highest court stopped short of ruling that the lack of a public hearing would force the state to drop the CON.

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Appeals Court to decide whether lack of public hearing could kill a CON

The outcome of a legal dispute over a new hospital emergency department in Buncombe County could depend on a state law requiring a public hearing. The state Appeals Court will decide in the months ahead whether the absence of a public hearing jeopardizes the certificate of need for a new Mission Health emergency department in Candler.

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Appeals Court wrestles with Bald Head Island barge, ferry parking regulation

The North Carolina Court of Appeals will decide in the weeks ahead whether the state Utilities Commission had the right to start regulating a barge and mainland parking lot tied to the Bald Head Island ferry. A dispute over that decision generated an hour of oral arguments Wednesday at the state’s second-highest court.

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Appeals Court wrestles with city-county funding fight over 911 service

A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals will have to decide whether Roanoke Rapids must pay any money to Halifax County for the operations of a countywide 911 center. The city-county dispute generated nearly an hour of oral arguments Wednesday at the state’s second-highest court.

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