Map Act News Today

Plaintiffs who helped launch Map Act litigation against the North Carolina Department of Transportation back in 2010 are supporting the DOT in a current Map Act dispute. They filed paperwork Friday at the state Supreme Court to submit a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.

Highway planners in Guilford County are recommending the cancellation of the widening of U.S. 158 to four lanes at Stokesdale along with a Stokesdale bypass. Traffic doesnt justify the project, they say. To the west, work is starting soon on widening the highway, known as Reidsville Road, to four lanes in the first phase of the same project.

A Wake County property owner involved in a Map Act dispute with the North Carolina Department of Transportation opposes DOT’s request to take the case to North Carolina’s second-highest court.

In a published opinion filed on January 17, 2024, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 5) reversed a trial court judgment overturning a mitigated negative declaration (MND) and...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation is asking the state’s second-highest court to take up two cases that could have a significant impact on payments to property owners targeted by the Map Act. In both cases, a Wake County judge issued rulings in June 2023 that favored property owners over the DOT.

Following California Supreme Court and its own case law precedent, the Second District, Division Five, has ruled in Guerrero et al. v. City of Los Angeles (Jan. 17, 2024) (Guerrero),...

Rolling Loud and Black Music Action Coalition have created a PSA to call on prosecutors to stop using rap artists' lyrics as evidence.

The Fayetteville Outer Loop is not the only major project in west Cumberland County.

In the recent tradition of California legislation that proffers development incentives to residential developers that include affordable housing and utilize a skilled and trained workforce in their project...

WILMINGTON — A proposed development, adjacent to the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, is in jeopardy now that a state agency wants to buy the land.