Tobacco giant Philip Morris urges the state Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that could force the company to pay a higher franchise tax bill. Philip Morris argued in a court filing Monday that the state Revenue Department is applying the law in an unconstitutional way.
The federal government believes North Carolina’s new law banning gender transition surgeries for minors violates the US Constitution. Federal officials offered that opinion in a court document filed Friday.
The American Civil Liberties Union is going to federal court to try to block North Carolina’s new anti-riot law. The measure is scheduled to take effect Dec. 1, after Gov. Roy Cooper decided not to use his veto stamp against the law. The suit filed Monday argues that “multiple provisions” of the new law are “facially unconstitutional.”
The potential prosecution of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein on misdemeanor criminal libel charges linked to the 2020 election campaign is over. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman delivered that news Thursday afternoon.
RALEIGH — North Carolina's General Assembly should repeal its unconstitutional taxpayer-financed campaign system in the wake of a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The John Locke Foundation's top legal expert reaches that conclusion after reviewing the high court's ruling. In an Arizona case, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a provision of that state's "clean elections" law was unconstitutional.
