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NC elections board rejects Pembroke mayor’s arguments in Appeals Court filing

The North Carolina State Board of Elections urges the state Appeals Court to uphold a lower court’s ruling against a 2023 election protest from Pembroke Mayor Gregory Cummings. Court orders in the case have allowed Cummings to remain in office nearly two years after he appeared to lose the 2023 election by 19 votes to challenger Allen Dial.

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Full Appeals Court will not rehear northeastern NC CON case

The full 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals will not hold a rehearing in a certificate-of-need dispute involving a magnetic resonance imaging machine for northeastern North Carolina. Virginia-based Chesapeake Diagnostic Imaging Centers sought the rehearing after a three-judge appellate panel ruled against Chesapeake in July.

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Appeals Court considers lawsuit challenging Cooper team’s 2020 racetrack shutdown

Two years after Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration shut down an Alamance County racetrack during the height of the COVID-19 scare, the track’s owners continue a legal fight against the state. A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in the case. It pits the head of the N.C. Department of Health...

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