The North Carolina Supreme Court has decided not to take a case that could have blocked a new hospital in Weaverville.
An ongoing court dispute could clarify rules in recurring disputes involving North Carolina's certificate of need.
AdventHealth is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to reject competitor Mission Health’s legal case against a new hospital in Weaverville. The high court issued a temporary stay last month in the dispute.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay in a certificate-of-need case involving new hospital beds in western North Carolina. Mission Health is asking the court to resolve “contradictory” and “confusing” rulings in state CON disputes.
Lawyers for Mission Health are asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to address “contradictory” and “confusing” rulings involving the state’s certificate-of-need law. A petition Wednesday urges the high court to take up a CON dispute over 67 new hospital beds in western North Carolina.
A federal Appeals Court panel split 2-1 Tuesday in granting a stay and injunction requested by Democratic state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs in the election dispute involving her high court seat. The Appeals Court blocked a process North Carolina's highest court endorsed for resolving last fall's election result.
The full North Carolina Court of Appeals will not hear the election dispute involving a seat on the state Supreme Court. Instead a three-judge panel with two Republicans and one Democrat will consider the case on March 21.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justices Trey Allen and Richard Dietz have signaled interest in clarifying the role of judicial deference in state courts.
Those who cite North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Richard Dietz's dissent in an election dispute ignore his arguments supporting Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin.
Society cannot have a stable legal foundation if courts frequently jump from one interpretation to another.
Supreme Court candidate Allison Riggs (D) now leads Republican Jefferson Griffin (R) by just 24 votes out of 5.7 million cast on November 5, following Friday's canvass of the election. With some counties' votes still incomplete, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced on Friday that the canvass process will continue into next week.
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