A negligence lawsuit against Raleigh could prompt a larger discussion about the impact of artificial intelligence in North Carolina’s legal system.
A federal judge has sanctioned the North Carolina Department of Justice, run by Attorney General Jeff Jackson, after documenting a history of lawyers from its Public Safety Section repeatedly running afoul of federal court rules. US Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers issued a 43-page order Friday imposing sanctions that affect the state attorney general himself.
North Carolina bar owners suing Gov. Roy Cooper over his decision to keep bars closed during the COVID-19 pandemic made the case this week for compensation from the state. The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 23 in NC Bar and Tavern Association v. Cooper. It’s one of two cases at the state’s highest court that day pitting the governor against bar owners.
Gov. Roy Cooper is asking the state Supreme Court to take up a case stemming from his shutdown of bars during the COVID-19 pandemic. The state Appeals Court ruled in April that Cooper had violated bar owners’ rights to the fruits of their labor and equal protection of the laws.
House convened for short session, will vote next week on budget corrections.
Liberal activist the Rev. William Barber is loudly calling for a special prosecutor to take over the case of Andrew Brown, who was shot after Pasquotank County deputies tried to serve him with search and arrest warrants. “Inept. Incompetent. Incapable of fixing this,” said Barber in a community protest, according to the News & Observer....
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Harris testified Wednesday he warned his father, Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Rev. Mark Harris, it was unwise to hire Bladen County political operative McCrae Dowless. But his parents shunned his advice. Mark Harris is in a legal skirmish to be seated in Congress. In the third day of a State Board of...
Andy Yates, the principal campaign strategist for Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Rev. Mark Harris, said he now questions whether McCrae Dowless legally rounded up absentee mail votes that helped to push Harris to an unofficial 905-vote win over Democrat Dan McCready in the 9th U.S. Congressional District. Yates, founder of Red Dome Group, said he had...
The political operative at the heart of the 9th Congressional District scandal won’t tell his story under oath — yet. McCrae Dowless, the main person of interest in an alleged ballot harvesting ring that helped Republican Rev. Mark Harris defeat Democrat Dan McCready in November, appeared under subpoena at a State Board of Elections evidentiary...
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina Law School’s Center for Civil Rights is cutting ties with the university system. Center lawyers Mark Dorosin and Elizabeth Haddix, who were fired Nov. 30, have filed paperwork moving the organization from under the UNC umbrella. The new center, renamed after famed civil rights lawyer Julius L. Chambers,...
Investigate Attorney General Josh Stein, says a former member of the Federal Elections Commission. “You have an unethical attorney general. I’m going to say that straight out,” said Hans Von Spakovsky, now a lawyer and senior fellow at the Washington, D.C-based Heritage Foundation. Von Spakovsky wants the North Carolina State Bar to investigate Stein’s part...
