The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of Chapel Hill in a legal dispute tied to the town’s inclusionary zoning rules. Appellate judges agreed that a homebuilder waited too long to file suit challenging more than $800,000 in fees.
North Carolina’s second-highest court will decide in the months ahead whether a developer can continue to seek a refund of more than $800,000 in fees paid to Chapel Hill in connection with the town’s inclusionary zoning rules. The developer challenges the fee as unconstitutional. A three-judge NC Court of Appeals panel heard more than an hour of oral arguments on the issue Wednesday.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest federal appellate court to uphold a law against deported immigrants re-entering the United States. Six immigrants charged under the act in North Carolina had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.
The US Supreme Court has decided not to take a COVID-related shutdown case filed by Virginia owners of a Dare County beach house. The owners had challenged Dare County’s actions in 2020 as an unconstitutional taking of private property.
Van Anh Nguyen, VinFast’s U.S. Manufacturing CEO met with Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper, state and local officials, and representatives from Central Carolina Community College last week to announce the partnership between the college and the Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court’s ruling favoring Chapel Hill in a dispute over fees charged to developers for affordable housing. Appellate judges agreed the plaintiff waited too long to file suit.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court ruling favoring Dare County in a dispute with beach property owners over COVID restrictions. The court handed down its unanimous opinion Wednesday in Blackburn v. Dare County.
The N.C. Supreme Court has decided not to take up a case dealing with disputed Mecklenburg County judicial districts that were repealed in 2020. The case would not have affected any future judicial elections. But it could have had an impact on $165,000 in lawyers’ fees. Orders issued Monday show the state Supreme Court has...
Lawyers representing N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican legislative leaders want the state Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit linked to now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts. In a joint filing, both sets of lawyers say the case is moot. The General Assembly voted in 2020 to repeal the law that created the judicial districts....
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has thrown out a drug case against a 13-year-old Mount Airy middle school student. The judges agreed authorities should have read the student his Miranda rights before he confessed. The case, referred to as In the matter of D.A.H., stems from a March 2019 incident...
Andy Yates, the principal campaign strategist for Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Rev. Mark Harris, said he now questions whether McCrae Dowless legally rounded up absentee mail votes that helped to push Harris to an unofficial 905-vote win over Democrat Dan McCready in the 9th U.S. Congressional District. Yates, founder of Red Dome Group, said he had...
