North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson opposes pausing his environmental lawsuit against DuPont and Chemours while the companies appeal a trial judge’s ruling to the state Supreme Court. A pause could delay a Business Court hearing in the case scheduled Oct. 30.
The North Carolina Chamber’s legal arm is supporting an appeal that challenges state Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s lawsuit against DuPont and Chemours over claims related to environmental contamination. Business Court Judge Michael Robinson ruled in August that Jackson could continue pursuing the suit filed in 2020.
For the second time in less than a year, a new judge is taking over North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding case. Senior Resident Superior Court Judge James Ammons of Cumberland County will oversee the case moving forward.
More than $677 million of a court-ordered state education plan remains unfunded, according to new documents from state lawyers. The documents filed Monday respond to the N.C. Supreme Court’s latest ruling in the long-running Leandro case.
Carolina Journal recaps key aspects of the long-running Leandro school funding story. This case returns to the state’s highest court Aug. 31.
N.C. legislative leaders want the state Supreme Court to reject a plan that would call for the forced transfer of $785 million for court-ordered education spending. Top legislators make their case in a new brief tied to the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Lawyers from N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s Justice Department urge the N.C. Supreme Court to uphold an order forcing state government to fund $785 million for education-related expenses. State lawyers make that request in their latest filing in the long-running Leandro school funding dispute. Legislative leaders and the state controller have challenged the order. It...
Plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro education funding lawsuit argue that a Superior Court judge was wrong to strike down his predecessor’s order transferring money out of the state treasury. A brief filed Friday asks the N.C. Supreme Court to strike down that portion of a $785 million order from Judge Michael Robinson.
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 5:20 p.m. with additional background. The N.C. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in late August in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. An order issued Wednesday spells out the schedule for the state’s highest court to address the latest Leandro disputes. The order signed by Justice Sam...
Advocates for hundreds of millions of new dollars in court-ordered N.C. education spending are renewing their appeals to the N.C. Supreme Court. Two filings Thursday urge the state’s highest court to take its next step in the long-running Leandro lawsuit.
Lawyers from the N.C. Justice Department are asking the state’s highest court to speed up its review of recent developments in a long-running school funding lawsuit. A brief filed Friday at the N.C. Supreme Court asks justices to restart the clock for lawyers working on the case known as Leandro.
