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The legal battle between N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein and Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman has ended. Both agree Stein's lawsuit against a 1931 N.C. criminal libel law is moot.

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman has filed paperwork in U.S. District Court opposing N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein's motion for summary judgment in their legal dispute.

A federal judge issued an order Wednesday officially ending the legal fight between North Carolina’s attorney general and Wake County’s district attorney. The two officials, both Democrats, had disputed possible enforcement of a 1931 state criminal libel law.

The legal battle between North Carolina’s attorney general and Wake County’s district attorney over a 1931 criminal libel law has reached an end. Attorneys for A.G. Josh Stein filed paperwork in federal court Tuesday withdrawing a motion for summary judgment in the case. In a separate document, Stein’s lawyers agreed with lawyers for Wake D.A. Lorrin Freeman that the “case is moot and can appropriately be dismissed.”

Two months after federal appellate judges ruled in favor of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein in his lawsuit challenging a state criminal libel law, Stein and Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman continue to engage in a legal dispute. In the latest development, Freeman’s attorney filed paperwork Monday objecting to Stein’s March 2 motion in U.S. District Court.

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman is urging a federal court to dismiss N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s lawsuit challenging a state criminal libel law. Freeman argues in new court paperwork that Stein’s suit is moot.

Almost a month after securing a legal victory at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is asking a federal trial court to rule a state criminal libel law unconstitutional. Stein’s lawyers filed a motion Thursday for summary judgment in his lawsuit challenging the criminal libel law.

The potential prosecution of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein on misdemeanor criminal libel charges linked to the 2020 election campaign is over. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman delivered that news Thursday afternoon.

A federal Appeals Court has ruled in favor of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein in his challenge of a state criminal libel law dating back to 1931. The unanimous panel agreed Stein is likely to win his argument that the law is unconstitutional.

Former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Exum could mediate a settlement of the criminal libel law dispute pitting the state attorney general against Wake County’s district attorney. Paperwork filed Friday in U.S. District Court shows that competing parties in the case titled Grimmett v. Freeman have agreed to use the 87-year-old Exum as a mediator.