Judge will not block depositions about Tyrrell Confederate monument
A federal judge has rejected Tyrrell County’s request to block depositions from current and former county commissioners in a lawsuit targeting the county’s Confederate monument.
The judge overseeing the federal case against Decarlos Brown Jr. in the 2025 stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska clarified Wednesday an earlier order shielding information about the case from public view.
A state legislative committee has postponed a hearing originally scheduled this week to address crime and public safety in Charlotte.
A federal judge issued an order Thursday blocking Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and North Carolina legislators from releasing information from the criminal investigative file tied to Iryna Zarutska's fatal stabbing last August on Charlotte's light rail line.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking a protective order in the open meetings and public records lawsuit filed by former provost Chris Clemens.
The three-judge panel overseeing a legal dispute over two 2018 North Carolina state constitutional amendments granted motions Monday helping both sides in the case. One amendment placed a photo identification requirement for voters into the state’s governing document. The other lowered the state’s cap on income tax rates from 10% to 7%.
Conservative election activist Cleta Mitchell has withdrawn her motion for a protective order against a left-of-center group in connection with a federal lawsuit. Mitchell had argued in a court filing earlier this week that Democracy NC planned to use a legal deposition to gain information that could hurt Mitchell’s work on election integrity.
Conservative election activist Cleta Mitchell has asked a federal court for a protective order against left-of-center activist group Democracy NC. Mitchell argues that ideological opponents hope to use a legal deposition to gather information they can use against her election integrity work.