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Court rejects police group’s brief in COVID arrest lawsuit
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will not allow a multistate police group to add its legal arguments to a case involving an arrest at a 2020 COVID shutdown protest.
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Cooper likely to be dropped from COVID protester’s federal lawsuit
Gov. Roy Cooper could be dropped as a defendant in a federal lawsuit challenging an arrest during a 2020 COVID shutdown protest in Raleigh. A court filing Friday proposes removing Cooper’s name and adding unnamed Raleigh police officers to the list of defendants linked to the arrest.
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High Point woman sues governor, others over COVID protest arrest
A High Point woman arrested and charged in connection with an April 2020 ReOpenNC COVID shutdown protest is going to federal court. She’s suing Gov. Roy Cooper, the city of Raleigh, and state and local law enforcement officials for alleged violations of her First and 14th Amendment rights.
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CJ politics week in review, April 27-May 1
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: Tony Rand, RIP: Longtime state Sen. Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, 80, died in his sleep, family members announced Friday, May 1. Rand, an affable dealmaker, was Senate majority...
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Orders against ‘mass gatherings’ shouldn’t interfere with constitutional liberties, says governor
Gov. Roy Cooper told the grassroots group ReopenNC on Monday, April 20, that recent executive orders and local ordinances limiting “mass gatherings” shouldn’t interfere with North Carolinians’ right to protest, worship, or exercise other First Amendment liberties. The lawyer representing ReopenNC told Carolina Journal that Wake County officials agree with the governor’s decision. ReopenNC, an...
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ReopenNC seeks clarity on (and easing of) rules limiting protests
The grassroots group ReopenNC has asked Gov. Roy Cooper and the chairman of the Wake County Board of Commissioners to clarify COVID-19-related emergency orders, claiming they violate constitutional rights of free assembly and free exercise of religion. ReopenNC, which started as a Facebook group in early April, has more than 55,000 members. The group hired...
