Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens prevented parts of House Bill 17 from taking immediate effect, issuing a stay on Thursday afternoon, giving parties a little more than a week to argue whether the... Read More
With the New Year less than a week away, legal experts and advocates are planning to keep an eye on litigation likely to make an impact in 2017. Below are just some of the lawsuits they expect will be... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, December 29, 2016. Mall brawls, it appears, are a thing now. A short-lived thing, we hope. We were surprised to see a large fight break out Monday at Cross Creek... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 29, 2016. North Carolina ranks with authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies in terms of electoral integrity, a UNC-Chapel Hill political science... Read More
The American Bar Association reports that: Two students filed a $5 million class action lawsuit Friday against Charlotte School of Law and its parent company, Infilaw. The complaint … accuses the... Read More
by Michael Walden, NC State professor of Economics, published in The Charlotte Observer, December 28, 2016 N.C. State University economist Michael Walden predicts that the state will pull further... Read More
by Laura Leslie, WRAL, December 27, 2016. Gov.-elect Roy Cooper is assembling a talented team to lead various state agencies despite a new law that requires confirmation by the state Senate of all... Read More
The State Board of Education said Wednesday that it will challenge a law passed two weeks ago that shifts some power from the board to the state superintendent of public instruction. The board met... Read More
One key consequence of the 2016 elections in North Carolina was that the state’s court system drew a great deal of attention. You can expect that attention to continue, and perhaps to lead to... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, December 23, 2016. Everyone expected the General Assembly to repeal HB2, the "bathroom law" that demands that transgender people who look like women go into men's... Read More
