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A trial over a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law has started. The trial began in Winston-Salem on Monday, more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly.
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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles granted a partial victory on Tuesday to a physician who performs abortions and last year sued state and local prosecutors and state health and medical officials.
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eCourts has been plagued by complaints about its implementation and faces a lawsuit.
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A state Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Tuesday that a trial judge erred when he rejected claims by the North Carolina Bar and Tavern Association and private bars that their constitutional rights to earn a living and for equal treatment under the law had been violated.
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The decision Monday from the three-judge panel handed a significant setback to legislative Republicans seeking to wrest those decisions from the governor.
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The North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the ongoing school funding case known as Leandro.
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The map enacted in October puts Republicans in good shape to win at least 10 of the state’s 14 congressional seats next November. Democrats and Republicans each won seven seats under a map used in 2022, but GOP legislators were able to draw new lines this fall without judicial limits on partisan bias.
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Gov. Roy Cooper says Republican lawmakers and the North Carolina Chamber are blocking Black nominees for state business courts.
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PETA has said it had wanted to conduct an undercover investigation at testing laboratories at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but feared prosecution under the law.
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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles issued an order Saturday halting enforcement of a provision to require surgical abortions that occur after 12 weeks — like those for cases of rape and incest — be performed only in hospitals.