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January 12, 2024 | Daily Report Online

A superior court judge agreed with Cooper's lawyers during a quickly scheduled hearing Thursday to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the Environmental Management Commission from dismissing its complaint against the Rules Review Commission, according to court records.

By Gary D. Robertson | The Associated Press

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June 21, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers for Scott Lassiter claim that for more than three years Speaker Tim Moore "willfully interfered in the marital relationship" between Lassiter and his wife, who leads an agency within the state courts system.

By Gary D. Robertson | The Associated Press

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May 25, 2023 | Daily Report Online

While Democrats only need to flip five GOP seats overall to regain control, experts say the state Supreme Court decision means four Democratic incumbents in the state — three of them first-term members — are vulnerable.

By Gary D. Robertson | The Associated Press

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February 06, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"The legal issues are the same; the evidence is the same; and the controlling law is the same," Associate Justice Anita Earls wrote in the dissent of the order agreeing to rehear the redistricting case. "The only thing that has changed is the political composition of the Court."

By Gary D. Robertson | The Associated Press

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December 19, 2022 | Daily Report Online

In a 4-3 ruling with the Democratic justices in the majority, the court on Friday said that while the House map continued to be constitutional, under closer inspection of the Senate map, the trial judges' conclusions on partisan fairness were wrong.

By Gary D. Robertson | The Associated Press

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November 18, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Challenger Paul Newby, the senior associate justice, had 406 more votes than Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, the state's first Black woman to hold the position, from nearly 5.4 million ballots counted from the race, according to figures from the State Board of Elections.

By Gary D. Robertson | The Associated Press

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May 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

Both the North Carolina Medical Society and the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers are supporting a bill, approved in the House by a wide margin Monday night, that caps monetary damages in negligence cases at $1 million, but only for those who agree to go to binding arbitration. The agreement is a marked change from previous years, when physicians have blamed rising malpractice insurance premiums on multimillion-dollar awards by runaway juries.

By Gary D. Robertson

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October 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

RALEIGH, N.C. AP - A federal grand jury has charged two former investors in a company seeking to build an ethanol plant in eastern North Carolina with conspiring to commit extortion and bribery.David Lee Brady, 75, of Raleigh and James Albert Perry Jr., 62, of Wake Forest, were released on bond after appearing in court to face charges contained in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

By GARY D. ROBERTSON

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August 14, 2012 | Daily Report Online

While other Southern states already have drawn the line on the federal health care overhaul, North Carolina doesn't seem quite settled on whether to commit to insuring hundreds of thousands more people starting in 2014.

By Gary D. Robertson

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July 25, 2007 | Daily Report Online

RALEIGH, N.C. AP - MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site - more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, officials in two states Tuesday.North Carolina's Roy Cooper is one of several attorneys general who recently demanded the News Corp.

By Gary D. Robertson

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