The North Carolina Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court ruling that could have diverted $12 million from the state attorney general to public schools.
The passing of G. Eugene Boyce on Oct. 28, 2025, marks the end of an era for North Carolina’s legal community. I had the honor of working briefly alongside Gene on the Goldston Highway Trust Fund litigation. That experience taught me more about constitutional law and legal ethics than years of practice could otherwise provide....
North Carolina’s second-highest court will decide in the weeks ahead whether Smithfield Foods’ $12 million in payments to the state since 2019 will head to public schools. A trial judge ruled in 2024 that the money should fund schools rather than remain with an environmental grant program run by the state attorney general.
SB 266 and HR 1 revive a principle NC has upheld in law for decades: delivering electricity at the lowest feasible cost without sacrificing reliability.
A new court filing at North Carolina’s second-highest court challenges the state attorney general’s ability to control money from a state settlement with Smithfield Foods. Critics have labeled the arrangement a “slush fund.”
The North Carolina attorney general’s office is defending its 25-year-old multimillion-dollar environmental grant program funded by Smithfield Foods. A Wake County judge ruled last year that $12 million from the fund should head to public schools.
North Carolina's Hampton Dellinger is dropping his legal fight to keep his job leading the federal Office of Special Counsel. Dellinger made that announcement Thursday, one day after a federal Appeals Court ruled that President Donald Trump could fire Dellinger.
The US Supreme Court refused Friday to block a lower court’s decision protecting a federal agency head from President Donald Trump’s plan to fire him. The targeted official ran for lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2008.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Philip Morris in the tobacco company’s legal battle with the state Revenue Department over an $8.7 million tax bill. The decision Friday split the court, 5-2, along party lines. The dispute involved export tax credits Philip Morris claimed on tax returns dating back a decade.
Instead of focusing primarily on what Donald Trump did, consider the possibility that the outcome may be due more to what his opponents did or didn’t do.
North Carolina’s living former governors all back current Gov. Roy Cooper in his legal battle with legislative leaders over a law that would remake the State Board of Elections. They filed paperwork in the state Appeals Court Tuesday to submit a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Cooper.
