A federal Appeals Court will allow a former jail inmate’s lawsuit to proceed against Davie and Stokes counties.
A federal Appeals Court has split, 2-1, in ruling against a black woman’s claim of workplace discrimination at Fort Bragg more than a decade ago. The majority’s decision Monday affirmed a trial judge’s ruling in the dispute.
A federal Appeals Court split 2-1 Tuesday on offering a new plea deal to a North Carolina man sentenced to more than 17 years in prison on drug charges. Edwin Leo Brown argued that his lawyers gave him bad advice that prompted him to reject an earlier deal in 2017.
A split panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out a 114-month prison sentence for a North Carolina felon convicted on a gun charge. The court’s majority faulted the trial judge in the case for relying too heavily on violent acts the man committed while awaiting sentencing.
A legal battle over North Carolina’s state Senate election map is scheduled for a federal trial next week. Parties on both sides of the dispute filed documents Monday setting up their arguments in the case.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the federal conviction of a man who admitted to setting fire to Fayetteville’s downtown Market House during a protest in 2020. The building located in a traffic circle downtown has attracted criticism because of its ties to the pre-Civil War slave trade.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will allow a former Wake County high school student to pursue her lawsuit against the school system for its response to racial harassment and cyberbullying during a student council election in 2016.
A federal judge will allow state and national Republican groups to move forward with their lawsuit challenging 225,000 voter registrations in North Carolina. An order issued Friday denied requests from the State Board of Elections and Democratic National Committee to have the case dismissed.
The nation’s highest court is scheduled to review in December an appeal in a case involving the North Carolina State Health Plan’s coverage of medical treatments typically pursued by transgender patients. Justices will decide after that review whether to take the case.
A lawsuit challenging registration of 225,000 voters in North Carolina will remain in federal court. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a trial judge should not have sent part of the case back to state court.
Plaintiffs are asking the nation’s highest court not to consider a case challenging the North Carolina State Health Plan’s ban on funding medical treatments typically sought by transgender patients. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the plaintiffs and against the State Health Plan in April.
