A North Carolina-based drone company continues to seek the US Supreme Court’s review of a licensing dispute with state government regulators.
A split federal Appeals Court panel has upheld a law that bans a person from teaching someone else to make or use a bomb with plans of committing a federal violent crime.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a trial judge’s ruling favoring North Carolina State University faculty members in a professor’s discrimination lawsuit.
A federal Appeals Court will allow a former jail inmate’s lawsuit to proceed against Davie and Stokes counties.
All parties seek to pause a federal lawsuit challenging the North Carolina State Health Plan’s exclusion of coverage for treatments sought by transgender patients.
A federal Appeals Court panel questioned Wednesday whether a 10-year-old copyright lawsuit over images of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship could move forward. The US Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that North Carolina state government had immunity from the suit.
The North Carolina State Health Plan announced Wednesday the reinstatement of its “longstanding exclusion of transition-related treatments” typically sought by transgender patients. The announcement arrived on the same day a court case challenging the exclusion officially returned to a federal trial court from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Republican leaders of North Carolina’s General Assembly oppose a request that the full 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals consider a redistricting dispute over two state Senate districts in northeastern North Carolina. Plaintiffs requested the “en banc” hearing last week.
Plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to reconsider his September order dismissing a lawsuit challenging conditions in North Carolina’s foster care system. The judge had ruled that adults who filed the suit did not have close enough relationships with foster children to represent them in court.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a Concord man’s conviction on federal hate crime charges. Marian Hudak was sentenced in 2024 to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Plaintiffs appealing a recent ruling in a North Carolina redistricting lawsuit are asking the full 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the case. They also ask appellate judges to expedite the case as candidate filing approaches for the state’s 2026 elections.
