The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled against the town of Wake Forest in a battle over permits for a charter school. In a 5-2 decision Friday, the court’s Republican majority ruled that Wake Forest should not have used a local sidewalk rule to block the school’s construction in 2020.
Greg Lindberg, once North Carolina’s top election campaign donor, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges connected to a scheme government officials described as a $2 billion fraud.
A federal judge has approved forfeiture of more than $1.4 million tied to the bribery case against former top North Carolina political donor Greg Lindberg. A jury found Lindberg and co-defendant John Gray guilty in May in a retrial on federal bribery and fraud charges. Lindberg and Gray await new sentences in the case.
North Carolina’s highest court will decide in the months ahead whether the town of Wake Forest could use a sidewalk requirement to reject a proposed charter school in 2020. The topic generated an hour of oral arguments Tuesday at the state Supreme Court.
The town of Wake Forest defended in a series of state Supreme Court filings Friday its 2020 decision to reject a local charter school. The town urges the high court to uphold the state Appeals Court's 2-1 ruling in 2022 defending the town’s action.
Alamance County commissioners filed paperwork with the state’s second-highest court this week defending their decision not to remove a Confederate monument from the county courthouse property in Graham in 2020. The North Carolina Court of Appeals is considering a challenge to that decision from plaintiffs led by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP.
The N.C. Coalition of Charter Schools is urging the N.C. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision against a proposed charter school in Wake Forest. A new friend-of-the-court brief filed Friday targets the state Appeals Court’s 2022 ruling supporting the town.
The N.C. Supreme Court will consider a lawsuit challenging Wake Forest’s decision in 2020 to block construction of a new charter school. A 2-1 ruling from the state Appeals Court last year supported the town in the legal fight.
The N.C. Court of Appeals has issued a 2-1 ruling favoring the town of Wake Forest in its legal dispute over construction of a new charter school. But some state lawmakers want to make it more difficult for local governments to stand in the way of new charter schools.
