The long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit will return to the N.C. Supreme Court for oral arguments on Aug. 31. An earlier court order says a decision in the case will "be filed upon a date to be chosen in the Court's discretion."
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...
The state's highest court no longer faces an active controversy over judges ordering money transferred out of the state treasury.
State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget. The $1.7 billion order was designed to fund items from the second and third years of a court-imposed Comprehensive Remedial...
Judge Michael Robinson can reject his predecessor's faulty decision to bypass the General Assembly's power of the purse.
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...
The legal dispute over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education funding will head back to a Wake County courtroom on April 13. The new judge overseeing the dispute set that date during his first online meeting Thursday with lawyers involved in the case. The parties left the meeting with competing views about the issues Special...
The fight over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education spending is heading to a new judge. Court records confirm that the long-running legal case known as Leandro is heading to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson. Robinson takes over from retired Union County Judge David Lee. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby made the switch...
The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending. A Supreme Court order issued Monday evening grants requests from both N.C. Attorney...
Legislative leaders argue there’s no good reason for the N.C. Supreme Court to step into a dispute now over $1.7 billion in court-ordered education funding. Republican legislators filed a new brief Monday. It opposes a request from the N.C. Department of Justice and other parties backing court-ordered funding. “Although DOJ and Plaintiffs urge the Court...
The judge in the ongoing Leandro school funding case has signed an order that attempts to compel the General Assembly to fund the components of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan agreed to by both the defendants and plaintiffs in the case last year. The move by Superior Court Judge David Lee appears to be a reversal...
