Two weeks before the state Supreme Court hears oral arguments again in the 30-year-old education funding dispute commonly known as Leandro, state legislative leaders restated an argument that could throw out court orders in the case dating back to 2018. The state’s highest court takes up the case again on Feb. 22.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for Feb. 22 in the latest round of a nearly 30-year-old education funding lawsuit. It’s commonly known as Leandro. The court voted 5-2 in October to take another look at the case, officially known as Hoke County Board of Education v. State. Justices will decide whether a trial court had “subject matter jurisdiction” to order hundreds of millions of dollars in new education spending.
State legislative leaders hope the North Carolina Supreme Court's earliest decisions in a long-running education funding dispute will guide its upcoming actions.
Legislative leaders want state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls to step away from a high-profile case dealing with education funding in North Carolina. A motion filed Thursday requests Earls’ recusal from the case commonly labeled Leandro.
The fate of a 29-year-old court fight could depend on a technical legal issue.
The state Supreme Court voted 5-2 to take another look at North Carolina’s long-running court battle over education funding. Justices will decide whether a trial court had “subject matter jurisdiction” to order hundreds of millions of dollars in new education spending. The decision announced Friday split the court along party lines. Republicans agreed to hear the case again. Democrats dissented.
Plaintiffs in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding lawsuit have asked the state Supreme Court to reject the latest petition from state legislative leaders. Top lawmakers are asking the court to take another look at Leandro.
The new judge appointed to oversee North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding case will hold his first hearing March 10 in Wake County. The first task for Superior Court Judge James Ammons is to decide how much money the state must spend to comply with earlier Leandro orders.
Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the John Locke Foundation’s Center for Effective Education, discusses N.C. Supreme Court oral arguments in the long-running Leandro education funding lawsuit. Stoops offered these comments during the Aug. 31, 2022, edition of Spectrum News 1’s “Capital Tonight.”
In paperwork filed Wednesday with the N.C. Court of Appeals, the State Board of Elections is urging the appellate court to reject a request from a Hoke County candidate to intervene in the county commissioner’s race. Lent Carr, who finished fourth in the May 17 Democratic primary, alleges that one of his competitors bribed voters...
One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court. Judge Michael Robinson’s order Friday requests information and legal argument about...
