The North Carolina Court of Appeals will allow a lawsuit to move forward challenging Kill Devil Hills’ restrictions against “itinerant vendors.”
A judge on Monday awarded food truck operators and one property owner nominal damages totaling $12 and court costs, in Proctor v. City of Jacksonville, signaling a win for economic liberty claims even as the court declined to directly rule on the constitutionality of the now-repealed ordinances, the plaintiffs’ attorney said.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has approved class-action lawsuits challenging government fees assessed in Raleigh and Carteret counties. Both cases produced unanimous decisions Friday.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals is taking another look at a lawsuit challenging a 141-lot subdivision in Durham County. The court has withdrawn its August ruling against the county.
North Carolina’s highest court will decide whether a legal challenge to Carteret County’s solid waste fees will move forward as a class-action suit. The court heard an hour of oral arguments Wednesday in the dispute.
It’s not the biggest threat to public safety, I admit, but panhandling along and often on North Carolina roadways is illegal, dangerous, counterproductive — and commonplace. During my daily travels in the capital city, I routinely see panhandlers approach idling cars at traffic lights and stop signs to beg motorists for cash. Many have been...
North Carolina’s highest court could decide in the months ahead whether residents challenging Carteret County’s solid waste fees can proceed with a class-action suit. The county is appealing Superior Court Judge Kent Harrell’s August 2024 decision allowing three different classes of plaintiffs in the dispute.
The Pacific Legal Foundation is siding with five Asheville-area residents who are suing the city because of racial criteria tied to its Human Relations Commission. PLF and the five plaintiffs filed an amended complaint Tuesday in the case Miall v. Asheville. Plaintiffs argue that Asheville rejected them for the advisory human relations group because they are white.
The city of Asheville wants a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from five white applicants for the city’s Human Relations Commission. City officials dispute the plaintiffs’ argument that they were rejected from the group because of their race.
The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower-court ruling blocking Wilmington from using a registration scheme to limit ownership of short-term rental properties. But the unanimous three-judge panel has restored part of the ordinance struck down in the original court order. Despite a mixed ruling for short-term rental property owners and the city, an...
RALEIGH — The state’s second highest court has rejected an attempt by an eastern North Carolina county to limit the age of manufactured housing units brought into the county. The N.C. Court of Appeals held that the General Assembly had not granted localities the authority to exclude or otherwise zone manufactured or mobile homes based upon value-based criteria.
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