The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling against two Orange County detention officers sued over their alleged role in a jail inmate’s death in 2020. The officers were accused of delaying a check on the injured inmate to avoid paperwork.
A nine-year legal battle over Orange County school impact fees returned Tuesday to North Carolina’s second-highest court.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has sided with an unaffiliated Orange County candidate and against the local elections board in a 2023 dispute involving petition signatures. The decision Wednesday reverses a trial judge’s ruling in the case.
This week on The Debrief we break down the biggest stories shaping North Carolina politics. Governor Josh Stein vetoes the Privacy Protection Act rejecting the idea that you have a right to privacy in making donations. Flooding in Alamance and Orange counties brings devastation closer to home—Stein visits the scene and urges continued caution. Meanwhile,...
People in central North Carolina continue to deal with the aftermath left behind after Tropical Storm Chantal devastated the area on Sunday, which left three people dead.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will allow plaintiffs challenging school impact fees in Orange County to move forward with their pursuit of refunds. The decision Friday reverses a split Court of Appeals, which delivered a less clear-cut result in 2023 for plaintiffs challenging the fees.
A North Carolina Supreme Court justice used an opinion Friday in an Orange County zoning dispute to point out the increasing complexity of local zoning rules. He labeled the effort to keep those rules consistent and unambiguous a “daunting task.”
Critics challenging Orange County’s school impact fees offered their arguments Monday to North Carolina’s highest court. It’s the latest step in a class-action legal dispute that started in 2017.
Questions during oral arguments Wednesday suggest the North Carolina Supreme Court does not favor mandating a 30-foot buffer between an Orange County subdivision and a neighboring horse farm. Plaintiff Alison Arter sued the county and property owners involved with the Array subdivision in 2021.
The state Appeals Court split 2-1 in ruling Tuesday against the owner of a horse farm in Orange County. The owner had argued that county rules required a buffer that would shield her property from a new housing development.
Property owners challenging school impact fees in Orange County hope the NC Supreme Court will take their case. They’re asking the court to follow the lead of a dissent from the state’s second-highest court.
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