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Three-judge panel will hear Cooper lawsuit challenging appointment changes

A three-judge Superior Court panel will weigh Gov. Roy Cooper’s legal arguments against a new state law. It shifts appointment powers away from the governor’s office and toward state lawmakers. Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway of Wake County issued an order Wednesday transferring the case from a single trial court judge to a three-judge panel. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby will appoint the three judges.

CJ Staff
Opinion

Major cheating scandal rocks redistricting review

Legislative Republicans filed an emergency motion on Monday in Wake County Superior Court seeking to block two liberal professors from helping review revised congressional and legislative maps. The professors from Princeton and Brigham Young universities were assigned to help three special masters review technical aspects of the maps for a three-judge Superior Court panel, but...

Dallas Woodhouse
Opinion

Trial begins on N.C. election maps

Does a one-seat partisan advantage in the drawing of North Carolina’s new congressional district maps amount to an extreme partisan gerrymander that is impermissible under the N.C. Constitution? That was much of the focus on the first day of a trial on the constitutionality of new congressional and legislative maps recently passed by the General...

Dallas Woodhouse
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Candidate filing starts after judges reject requests to block N.C. election maps

Filing starts Monday, Dec. 6, for the 2022 elections. The filing moves forward after a three judge panel on Friday refused requests to block new N.C. election maps. Plaintiffs in two lawsuits had urged the judges meeting in Wake County Superior Court to issue a preliminary injunction against the maps. Such an action would have...

Theresa Opeka
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Ongoing dispute between Istation and Amplify may be heading to court 

State Superintendent Mark Johnson isn’t happy with how the N.C. Department of Information Technology has handled the dispute between Amplify and Istation for the K-3 reading contract, and he’s taking the matter to the courts. The N.C. Department of Public Instruction has formally petitioned the Wake County Superior Court to review DIT’s stay blocking the...

Lindsay Marchello
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General Assembly violated N.C. Constitution in drawing districts, court rules

A three-judge Superior Court panel agreed with the NAACP and other plaintiffs that the General Assembly violated the state constitution’s prohibition on changing legislative district boundaries in the middle of a decade. In a ruling in NAACP v. Lewis released Friday, Nov. 2, the panel directed the General Assembly to fix the impermissible defects in...

Dan Way

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Court enforces stay so election can proceed without disruption

A three-judge Superior Court panel expanded the scope of the temporary enforcement delay it ordered in a case striking down the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Reform on constitutional grounds. The latest ruling, released Monday, Oct. 22, prevents disruption of the Nov. 6 general election. The judges hearing the Cooper v. Berger lawsuit...

Dan Way
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Court rules: Brewers lawsuit against state moves forward

A Wake County Superior Court has ruled against the state of North Carolina in a lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of the state’s distribution cap and franchise laws on breweries. The complaint — filed last year by Craft Freedom LLC, The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery LLC, and NoDa Brewing Co. — says the distribution...

John Trump
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