by Ian Weiner | Feb 17, 2021 | Press Releases
(Raleigh, N.C.) – North Carolina’s failure to engage in rulemaking to protect workers from COVID-19 or to investigate COVID complaints violates the state’s obligations to operate at least as effectively as the Occupational Safety and...
by Don Owens | Nov 2, 2020 | Press Releases
(Greensboro, N.C.) – The constitutional rights of pre-Election Day protesters must be protected from the Alamance County Sheriff’s department and the Graham, N.C. police department, a lawsuit filed in federal court today claims. Protestors...
by Ian Weiner | Aug 27, 2020 | Press Releases
(Raleigh, N.C.) – Amendments to the “Right to Farm” Act adopted by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2017 (HB 467) and 2018 (SB 711) violate the state constitution by restricting fundamental property rights of residents...
by Don Owens | Jul 3, 2020 | Press Releases
(Raleigh, N.C.) – The city of Graham’s orders preventing groups of two or more people from protesting without police permission violates the First Amendment to the Constitution on rights to free speech and assembly, a coalition of civil rights groups led by the...
by Don Owens | Jun 26, 2020 | Press Releases
(Raleigh, N.C.) – North Carolina-based advocacy groups are concerned about possible Raleigh police violence against peaceful protesters at the Pride in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter rally this weekend, a letter sent to Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown on behalf...