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Supreme Court likely to let vape company’s FDA challenge proceed

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Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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Federal Court Rules Professors Can Be Punished for Disruptive or Uncollegial Speech

JonathanTurley

Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University , which was unfortunately not reviewed by the Supreme Court. I was discussing the Fourth Circuit case of Porter v. Now, as feared, it is being replicated by the Sixth Circuit in Gruber v. of Trustees.

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Supreme Court rules against North Carolina Republicans over election law theory

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Share In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. Roberts agreed that the court did have the power to decide the case on the merits.

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North Carolina appeals court rules same-sex partners eligible for domestic violence protections

JURIST

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled Thursday that people who are or have been in a dating relationship with a same-sex partner are equally protected against domestic violence as persons in opposite-sex relationships placed in a similar situation. While relying on the Supreme Court decision in Bostock v.

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US Supreme Court rejects North Carolina’s ‘independent legislature’ theory

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Moore v. The theory stipulates that state legislatures retain exclusive authority over the administration of elections; therefore, state courts are not allowed to intervene, even if the law in question violates the state constitution. Reno and Cooper v.

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Court seems unwilling to embrace broad version of “independent state legislature” theory

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Harper arose from a challenge to a new congressional map adopted by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature in early November 2021. The North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the map after finding that it was a partisan gerrymander in violation of the North Carolina constitution.

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North Carolina State Court of Appeals Weighs Power of Constitutional Protection Against Double Jeopardy

The Crime Report

A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals published a pair of opinions Tuesday holding that two people can be charged with murder for brutalizing a child 25 years ago — even though they had already been convicted of child abuse for the same act of violence in the late ‘90s. David Tripp, Jr.

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