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North Carolina Legislature On Track To OK New Maps This Week
New electoral boundaries for North Carolina General Assembly seats demanded by state judges are on track to be finalized by this week's court deadline.
The Senate scheduled floor debate on its proposed plan for Monday evening. The House passed its own map late last week, but it and the Senate are holding a public hearing earlier Monday to take citizen comment.
Plaintiffs: More NC Mapmaker Documents Should Be Released
Plaintiffs in a successful North Carolina redistricting lawsuit say state judges should allow the public release of a trove of documents culled from a late Republican mapmaker's files.
Common Cause and North Carolina Democrats were permitted to use a small number of files they subpoenaed from the daughter of Thomas Hofeller in a partisan gerrymandering trial in July.
The judges ordered the rest remain confidential while Hofeller's old firm designated documents they wanted to remain private. That confidentiality order — issued before some documents also were used in litigation over a U.S. census citizenship question — expires next week.
Democratic U.S. senators and media outlets such as The Associated Press and The New York Times filed briefs on Friday — as did the plaintiffs — asking more documents be released.
Stanford Prof. Again To Review North Carolina Legislative Maps
North Carolina judges who ruled the state's legislative district maps were drawn to unconstitutionally favor Republicans are hiring a familiar expert to review how state lawmakers fix the problem.
The three-judge Superior Court panel on Friday appointed Stanford University law professor Nathaniel Persily to check the state General Assembly's revisions. He may also redraw legislative districts himself if the judges decide legislators didn't follow guidelines the court outlined earlier this month.
North Carolina AG Says He'll Sue Purdue Pharma Family Soon
North Carolina's attorney general says he's pursuing accountability from the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma with a pending lawsuit over their role in the country's opioid epidemic.
Attorney General Josh Stein said Friday a lawsuit targeting the Sackler family will be filed "imminently." The state previously sued the company.
Thousands of local governments and more than 20 states reached a tentative settlement Wednesday that could be worth up to $12 billion over time, though critics believe the real value could be much lower.
Greensboro's American Hebrew Academy To Reopen Following Unexpected Closure
The recently closed American Hebrew Academy has announced it will reopen. The Greensboro institution will be running again next school year.
The announcement came with little fanfare.
The school's website, which had previously shown the simple message, “The American Hebrew Academy is closed,” now reads, “Exciting news! The Academy will be reopening for the 2020 - 2021 school year!”
The campus closed abruptly on June 11 of this year, with most staff and faculty contracts ending unexpectedly the very next day.
Low enrollment and declining donations were the reasons given for its initial closure.
North Carolina Officials Find Spiked CBD Sold In The State
North Carolina authorities have encountered products marketed as delivering the cannabis extract CBD but that instead were spiked with synthetic marijuana.
The state crime lab found nearly 30 spiked products as of earlier this year. Nearly all were vape products.
The Associated Press gathered the results for an investigation into how some operators are capitalizing on the CBD boom by substituting a dangerous street drug for the real thing.
That practice has sent dozens of people nationwide to emergency rooms, including teens and service members in North Carolina.
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