The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up cases from North Carolina dealing with drunk-driving prosecutions and an out-of-state sales tax dispute. The court issued orders Tuesday morning denying requests to hear the cases next fall.
The U.S. Supreme Court will review two cases next month with N.C. ties. Either case could return the Tar Heel State to national headlines when the nation’s highest court starts its next term in the fall. Justices have set June 15 as the date to consider whether to take up Quad Graphics v. N.C. Department of Revenue and Diaz-Tomas v. North Carolina.
North Carolina’s solicitor general is urging the nation’s highest court to reject a case challenging the state Revenue Department’s assessment of sales tax on out-of-state transactions. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide in the coming weeks whether to take the case titled Quad Graphics v. N.C. Department of Revenue.
Groups representing manufacturers, small businesses, and more than 500 large corporations hope the U.S. Supreme Court will take the case of a sales tax dispute from North Carolina. The nation’s highest court will make its decision about accepting or rejecting the case no earlier than mid-May.
A national group of tax lawyers wants the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case from North Carolina dealing with sales taxes on out-of-state transactions. The case stems from a Wisconsin-based company's fight against a sales tax assessment from N.C. revenue officials.
A company fighting the N.C. Department of Revenue over sales tax on out-of-state transactions hopes to take its case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The company wants the nation’s highest court to reverse a December ruling from North Carolina’s top court.
The Milk Commission may make a return to North Carolina, but a bill reestablishing the commission still has a ways to go before becoming law. The House Agriculture Committee debated Senate Bill 380 Wednesday, Aug. 7, and unanimously voted to move the bill forward to the House Judiciary Committee without giving it a favorable or...
Some lawmakers want to bring back the state’s Milk Commission to protect local dairy farmers, but critics of the measure contend it will only lead to higher milk prices. During the July 31 House Agriculture Committee meeting, Reps. Jeff McNeely, R-Iredell, and Pat Hurley, R-Randolph, introduced a PCS to Senate Bill 380 that would bring...
RALEIGH — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is cracking down on marijuana use — but the move shouldn’t derail efforts to legalize medical cannabis in North Carolina, Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, told Carolina Journal. Sessions last week overturned an Obama-era policy that took a hands-off approach to state level cannabis operations. The “Cole Memo,” a...
Federal environmental regulations are battering farmers, and public policy research analyst Darren Bakst believes there is a mechanism to address the plight. It’s the next version of the federal Farm Bill, now in its early stages, said Bakst, a former John Locke Foundation researcher now with the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. The regulatory burden is...
CHAPEL HILL — Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean displayed a self-deprecating wit, but Fox television show host John Stossel wasn’t laughing about what he viewed as Dean’s flawed grasp of the free market. The politician and the libertarian consumer affairs journalist exchanged good-natured barbs and ideas Sept. 20.
