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North Carolina's highest court has a chance to strike down a significant barrier to health care reform.

By Daryl James and Renee Flaherty

North Carolina regulators crossed a line in 1973 when they told a nonprofit hospital it could not build new facilities on its own land with its own money. A new law had given the regulators veto power, but the state Supreme Court intervened and declared the statute unconstitutional. The decision was not close. The justices

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

More than a year after a New Bern eye surgeon asked North Carolina’s highest court to take up his challenge of the state’s certificate-of-need law, the court has answered yes. An order issued Friday confirms that the North Carolina Supreme Court will hear Dr. Jay Singleton’s challenge to state CON restrictions. Singleton had appealed to the high court in August 2022.

Courts moved fast to overturn Arizona’s prohibition on recording the police within eight feet. A federal judge suspended the law two months after it passed in July 2022, and then struck it down on July 21, 2023, after nobody came forward to defend it.

Attorneys with both the ACLU and Institute for Justice have filed briefs supporting Ace Speedway in its legal fight with North Carolina's top health official.

The N.C. Supreme Court issued orders Monday allowing attorneys from both the ACLU and Institute for Justice to file briefs supporting Ace Speedway in its legal fight against the state’s top health official. State Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley is urging the high court to reverse the state Court of Appeals. A unanimous appellate panel ruled in August 2022 that speedway owners could pursue a lawsuit against Kinsley over a forced shutdown in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

South Carolina will now only require a certificate of need for long-term care facilities, opening the health care market to smaller providers.

A new change in state regulations makes it easier for billboard companies to cut trees.