JURIST
APRIL 25, 2024
A federal judge in North Carolina found on Tuesday that the state’s 147-year-old voting law is unconstitutional. The lawsuit arose when civil rights group North Carolina A. The lawsuit arose when civil rights group North Carolina A. Executive Director of the North Carolina A.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday blocked a lower court order that would restore voting rights to more than 55,000 North Carolinians on parole or probation for a felony. ” Moore said, “although this fight is far from over, [he is] confident that the Constitution will prevail in the end.”
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JURIST
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The man, Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., pleaded guilty to interstate communication of threats.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2023
This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording. The law at issue was enacted in response to a dispute between Food Lion and ABC News in North Carolina in the late 1990s.
JURIST
JANUARY 14, 2022
The case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for DC and the DOJ National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. The defendants allegedly coordinated, planned to, and traveled to the Capitol on January 6 and brought weapons. Seditious conspiracy can result in a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Castile’s death spurred Ramsey County, MN Attorney John Choi to announce that he was ending the prosecution of cases resulting from non-public safety traffic stops. In North Carolina, weapons were found in just one-tenth of 1 percent of incidents. Yet they have been met with swift and vocal backlash.
JonathanTurley
MAY 26, 2021
We previously discussed how prosecutors in North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, and other states have dismissed or downgraded many rioting cases, including cases of individuals who destroyed statues in broad daylight. The seven defendants were charged with felony counts of damaging property worth over $1,000.
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