North Carolina launches Medal of Valor Award
North Carolina's new Medal of Valor Award, recognizes first responders who perform acts of great bravery under imminent personal risk.
North Carolina's new Medal of Valor Award, recognizes first responders who perform acts of great bravery under imminent personal risk.
Biden's pick of Ryan Park for the post has drawn criticism from North Carolina's Sens. Tillis and Budd who issued a joint statement opposing it. Park has played a pivotal role in litigation against policy passed by North Carolina's Republican-led legislature.
A University of North Carolina tennis player is seeking a preliminary injunction against the NCAA in her lawsuit over students’ access to prize money. At stake in her case is nearly $49,000 for a third-round finish in the 2021 US Open.
Top North Carolina legislative leaders seek to end a nearly six-year-old legal battle over state constitutional amendments. It’s the case that prompted the John Locke Foundation to put together the “Extreme Injustice” podcast.
La Corte Suprema de Carolina del Norte ha programado un día laboral completo en septiembre para casos relacionados con la Ley SAFE Child. La ley estatal de 2019 permitió a las presuntas víctimas de abuso sexual infantil presentar demandas en 2020 y 2021, años después de que esas demandas hubieran prescrito. Los cinco casos programados...
Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawyers are defending his decision to keep bars closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cooper’s legal team filed paperwork this week with North Carolina’s highest court.
As a federal judge ponders the future of North Carolina’s voter identification law, state legislative leaders have asked her to issue a stay of any ruling against voter ID. Legislative lawyers filed paperwork Monday explaining why they believe US District Judge Loretta Biggs should allow voter ID to remain in effect in North Carolina during an appeal of a possible ruling against the state law.
A federal judge has scheduled a February 2025 trial in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s state Senate election map. The trial will have no impact on Senate elections scheduled this fall. If plaintiffs win, state lawmakers could be forced to draw new state Senate districts for 2026 elections.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has scheduled a full work day in September for cases related to the SAFE Child Act. The 2019 state law allowed alleged victims of child sex abuse to file lawsuits in 2020 and 2021, years after those suits had been barred by the statute of limitations.
A recent state Supreme Court ruling in a lawsuit over Kinston’s property condemnation practices could have an impact on a separate case involving state health care regulation. The state Supreme Court issued an order Friday setting a 30-day deadline for new briefs in the case Singleton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The case challenges North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law.
A state Supreme Court decision in May involving media access to law enforcement video recordings could help resolve two similar high-profile legal disputes dating back to 2021. One involves the shooting death of Andrew Brown in Elizabeth City. The other focuses on a driving while impaired traffic stop of two Duke basketball players in Orange County.
North Carolina gubernatorial candidates, Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson and Attorney General Josh Stein, spoke to a crowd of over 500 Thursday at the Greater Wilmington Business Journal’s Power Breakfast. Economy Robinson, the Republican nominee and Stein, the Democratic nominee both came out of the gate with their view on the economic future for the state. “We have to make...